Kant

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Rationalist and empiricist philosophies

Arguments by Hume and Kant

Immanuel Kant deduced the harmony between rationalism and empiricism His form of philosophy is sometimes called Copernican revolution of philosophy ' emphasize its novelty and importance associated . But after Kant , there could be no discussion of reality or knowledge without any rational awareness about the role of the human mind that constructs reality and knowledge . In the end , it was the termination of the age old debate between rationalists and empiricists and finally it was the

br epistemology which went in a new direction

Rationalism

Plato , Descartes , Spinoza and Leibniz have been the philosophers with rationalists ' paradigm . Some of the highlights of the rationalism are

Not to trust senses and some of the times they deceive as the knowledge provided by them could be inferior because of its changing

By reasoning only , knowledge could be achieved . Paradigm of real knowledge could be derived out of Math

The concepts behind self and substance and identity have various explanations and forms like Plato 's Forms , or Descartes ' explanations

The self has been pictured as real and can be seen as the very outcome of an immediate intellectual intuition

The ground behind any moral notions should be something that stands external to self . It could be in any external form i .e , some supernatural entity or God

But as per Kant says rationalists are almost right when above mentioned points (3 ) and (4 ) are considered while he found (1 ) and (2 ) as...