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Socrates Meets Kant: The Father of Philosophy Meets His Most Influential Modern Child is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Kreeft explains how Immanuel Kant was both a philosopher about how we know things (epistemology) and a philosopher of right and wrong (ethics). Kant’s philosophy of knowing truly was a “Copernican revolution in philosophy,” and his ethics were intended to lay a rational foundation for morality. If he had written only on either topic, he would still be among the most important and...

human reason. Once that question is raised, it must be answered. It cannot be ignored. SOCRATES: So you thought Plato and Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas were even more uncritical than Descartes and the Rationalists because they did metaphysics without doing epistemology first? KANT: Yes. They simply assumed that the human mind could know being, could know reality as it really is, could know “things-in-themselves”, as I called them. But in modern philosophy we are more critical: we demand that that
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