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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...

KANT: No, that’s not all I meant. SOCRATES: What more, then, did you mean? KANT: As Copernicus changed the absolute in astronomy, I changed the absolute in philosophy. Instead of the sun being relative to the earth, in revolving around the earth, Copernicus said the earth is relative to the sun and revolves around the sun. The sun only appears to move—to rise and set. Really it is we who are moving. SOCRATES: And how is this revolution in astronomy parallel to your revolution in philosophy? KANT:
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