Immanuel Kant
life
Immanuel Kant 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804 was an influential flatterer. He studied at Collegium Fridericianum and then the University of Königsberg. After graduating went on to become a private tutor in Königsberg. Between 1749 and 1799 he published several dozen political and philosophical works.
WORKS
Of his philosophical works during this period, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785), Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and Metaphysics of Morals (1797) remain most influential today.
death
Kantian ethics has developed since his death on 12 February 1804. As system of morality that is derived from the aggregate of his philosophical works.
IMMANUEL kANT REFLECTING gORGIAS
significant quotes
Kant like Gorgias was uninspired by the cognitive powers of humanity. He rejected the idea that an individual was capable of making a discovery of principle that could be applied universally. Kant did this in a very clever way.
He argued that attaining a goal is derived from seeking the pleasure of attaining the goal. Since no one experiences pleasure or pain in the same manner or to the same degree, he argued that it would be impossible to for one individual’s desired outcome to be universally applicable to all humanity.
Since all creative discoveries take place with in the mind of an individual, and since the hypothesis that generates them is founded on a desire, he is able to conclude with very little resistance from the reader, that no individual, be it Socrates, Plato, or implicitly, even Einstein is capable of discovering a universal principle that is unknown to society at large.
As was the case with Gorgias, Immanuel Kant exalted to the domain of the persuader. But while many follower of Gorgias simply excluded the work of Socrates and Plato. Immanuel Kant superficially co-opted it under the orator umbrella of seeking pleasure.
By conflating a pursuit of lawfulness with a pursuit of pleasure, Kant was able convince his reader to accept arbitrary rule. Since lawfulness arises within an individual human mind, and since in arises in pursuit of pleasure, and because pleasure is based on experience and experience unique to each individual, it is impossible for an individual to discover a universal law applicable to all.