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Kant Dualism

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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of the nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields. Kant was involved in the crisis of the enlightenment. Enlightenment is about thinking for oneself rather than letting others think for you. It was to replace traditional authorities with the authority of individual human reason, but it was not about overturning traditional moral and religious beliefs. (Stanford.edu, 2010)
Metaphysical idealism is an ontological doctrine that holds that reality itself …show more content…

This person does not believe that we have a detachable soul or that reality involves some other distinct type of reality like spirit. (Schenck, K., 2014 pg. 117) When you are no longer here on earth your soul still lives on and your spirit is in heaven or hell. Christians also believe that there is a Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, and all three are God. In some religions they do not believe there are three, they just have one God.
A dualist believes that the universe consists of two distinct kinds of reality, usually one material and one nonmaterial or, more precisely, one immaterial. Christians believe that we have a physical part, a body, and a nonphysical part, a …show more content…

(Schenck, K., 2014 pg. 120)
Idealism is an interesting way of thinking. When you have never studied or thought about the different ways the mind works, it can be very interesting and confusing subject. Thinking of material and nonmaterial things, how many Gods we have, human or nonhuman, and whether or not something is true.
Ethics is the area of philosophy that has to do with how to live in the world. Hardly any area of philosophy is more directly applicable to “real life” than ethics, because it deals with the kinds of decisions we have to make both in the long and short term. There are two basic perspectives of ethics, Act- based approaches to ethics predictably focus on doing what we should or should not do, how we should act. Virtue-based ethics, as it is called, is more focused on things like character, motives, and true happiness rather than on whether specific actions are right or wrong. Also there are at least three different kinds of act-based approaches to ethics, duty-based ethics, utilitarianism, and Egoist. The problem with all ethical theories is the complexity of life. Life is filled with no-win situations. (Schenck, K., 2014 pg.

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