Empiricism and Rationalism Kantian Approach

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Introduction Immanuel Kant's writings have provided an 'epistemological turn' in Western philosophy during the so-called Age of Enlightenment. Empiricism and Rationalism are two major historical movements in the early modern period of philosophy that had a significant impact on Kant. The Empiricists sought to have knowledge through the senses and a posteriori reasoning. The Rationalists attempted to use a priori reasoning to have knowledge. Kant argues that both the method and the content of the argument contain serious flaws. Kant's crucial insight here is to argue that experience of the world is only possible if the mind provides a systematic structuring of its representations. This structuring is below the level of, or logically prior to, the mental representations that the Empiricists and the Rationalists analyzed. Kant's methodological innovations were to employ what he calls Transcendental argument to prove synthetic a priori claims. Philosophy literally means "love of wisdom." It is very difficult to define philosophy in such a way as to please everybody.