Editing Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Immanuel Kant''' — The central figure of modern philosophy; lived his entire life in Königsberg, Prussia.
* '''Critique of Pure Reason''' — Kant's masterpiece (1781) on the limits and powers of human knowledge.
* '''Phenomena''' — The world as it appears to our senses and mind.
* '''Noumena (Thing-in-itself)''' — The world as it is independently of our observation (which Kant says we can never know).
* '''A Priori Categories''' — The "Mental Filters" (like Space and Time) that the mind uses to organize experience.
* '''Synthetic A Priori''' — Knowledge that is both informative about the world and known through reason (e.g., 7 + 5 = 12).
* '''Categorical Imperative''' — Kant's rule for ethics: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."
* '''Transcendental Idealism''' — Kant's name for his philosophy: the idea that the mind "transcends" experience to create the rules of experience.
* '''The Copernican Revolution (in Philosophy)''' — Shifting the focus from the "Object" (the world) to the "Subject" (the mind).
* '''Sapere Aude''' — "Dare to know"; Kant's motto for the Enlightenment.
* '''Duty (Deontology)''' — The belief that ethics is about following universal rules, regardless of the consequences.
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