This thinker's early work was focused on natural philosophy and includes a self-described unsuccessful attempt to mediate between Cartesian and Leibnizian theories of physical force as well four essays on earthquakes and winds.
This thinker's early work was focused on natural philosophy and includes a self-described unsuccessful attempt to mediate between Cartesian and Leibnizian theories of physical force as well four essays on earthquakes and winds. Besides writing, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces, this philosopher asserts that the laws of nature and the laws of human conduct are compatible precisely because they are both products of human thought in his last work, The Conflict of the Faculties. His work on religion includes an essay ridiculing metaphysical theories as the fantasies of the Swedish Theosophist Emmanuel Swedenborg whom this author calls a "Spirit Seer," and rejects both the ontological argument and the argument from design in The Only Possible Argument. For 10 points, name this philosopher who answered the question "What is Enlightenment," and rejects the supposed right to lie due to philanthropic concerns in a supplement to his Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
This thinker's early work was focused on natural philosophy and includes a self-described unsuccessful attempt to mediate between Cartesian and Leibnizian theories of physical force as well four essays on earthquakes and winds.
Immanuel Kant