Kantianism

Kantianism represents the ideas of the late 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant. He is most well known for founding Deontological ethics, but he also contributed broadly to most important fields in Philosophy.

Epistemology and Metaphysics
Kant's Epistemology and Metaphysics are infamously complex, so this will be a brief overview. Kant made the claim that there are three main categories through which we experience the world, Intuition, Understanding, and Reason. Intuition is sensory impressions that are given to us by objects outside our understanding. Reason is what allows us to make logical destination's based of these sensory impressions. Understanding is the facility that allows us to comprehend things without having to infer them from intuition.

According to Kant, there are cretin inution's like time and space which are indispensable to how we experience the world. They must exist a priori, or before we experience anything. But all intuition's must exist from empirical experience. Therefore, Kant argues that what we experience in the world is not the world it's self, but merely an impression of it. Therefor, what we experience Kant be the world as it is in and of it's self. Kant calls the world as it is in and of its self "Numina" and the world as we experience it "Phenomena." So then what is this "Numina" like? Who the hell knows. This leads Kant to his view of Transcendental Idealism, basically the view that, although all are ideas stem from reality, the world as it is in and of it's self remains unknowable.

Ethics
The basis of Kant's ethics is that we should always act in such a way that could be made a universal law. From this, he derives that we should never use people as an means, but always as an ends in themselves. For Kant, this goes even if using someone as an ends will help prevent a greater harm to even more people.

Political Philosophy
Kant argued that in order to martian human freedom, we must all seek a society in which it is possible to live free and rational lives. He called this state a Rechtsstaat, or a Republic governed by law. The sole purpose of this state was to maximize the possibility of human autonomy.

Friends:

 * [[File:Monkeyzz-Enlightenment.png]] - "Have courage to use your own reason! This is the motto of Enlightenment!"
 * [[File:Enlightmon.png]] - I'm a big fan of Frederich the Great, my monarch.
 * [[File:Frencons.png]] French Constitutionalism - I defended the French revolution.
 * [[File:ClassicalLiberal.png]] - Inspired my view of the social contract as a tool to maximize liberty. Just make sure there isn't too much democracy, okay?

Frenemies:

 * [[File:Radlib.png]] - You see, this is what I meant by "to much democracy." You want to give women the right to vote! Preposterous! At least you still believe in enlightenment values tho.
 * [[File:Ind.png]] - I'll try my best to protect you from [[File:Imp.png]], but it's out of duty, your all lazy and stupid.
 * [[File:Hobbes.png]] Hobbesism - I agree that we need to seek a social contract, but why aren't you trying to maximize liberty? And stop being so selfish!

Enemies:

 * [[File:Utility.png]] Utilitarianism - So what, if murdering babies makes people happy that makes it okay? Happiness isn't a valid biases for morality!
 * [[File:Hedon.png]] Hedonism - Good God! This is even worse!
 * [[File:Imp.png]] - I don't care if it helps us, this is just plain wrong.
 * [[File:Egoism.png]] - Stop being so selfish!