Practice modes
Languages & Literature
Pakistan
World & History
1724 – 1804
Categorical imperative, Perpetual Peace, transcendental idealism
Kant argued the mind is not a passive recorder of the world but actively structures all experience through built-in categories such as space, time and causality — we can know things only as they appear to us, never as they are "in themselves". In ethics he rejected judging actions by their consequences and instead argued morality requires acting only on principles you could will to be universal law — the categorical imperative — regardless of outcome.
German philosopher from Königsberg who reportedly never travelled more than ten miles from his home city his entire life, yet revolutionized Western philosophy.