Getting Kant in 8 minutes

…and understanding his connections to Cognitive Neuroscience

For the dyslexics that came here looking for advice on picking up women quickly: I have to disappoint you.

This one is about Transcendental Philosophy.

Immanuel Kant was a giant among philosophers. He is considered by many to be the single most important philosopher of modernity, perhaps the only one that can reach up to the heights and influence of Plato and Aristotle. So there are other reason for writing this article besides really wanting to make that horrible pun.

A lot of thinking took place under that enormous forehead.

But what did Kant actually do to deserve that reverence? What ideas did he have that changed the way people would look at the world thereafter?

His three Critiques that make up his Critical Philosophy, the Kritik der Reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason), Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft (Critique of Practical Reason), and his Kritik der Urteilskraft (Critique of Judgement), try to explain and answer the four famous Kantian questions:

1. What can I know?
2. What do I have to do?
3. What can I hope for?
4. What is the human being?