Q&A: Kant
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Kant
Question
Kant, in the introduction to his introductions, claims that his entire method is a complete innovation (except that David Hume awakened him to formulate it). Do you also think so, or in the end did Kant also not change very much in philosophy, but only sharpen, separate, and emphasize the sources of a priori and a posteriori knowledge?
Answer
I think he innovated a great deal, although innovations in philosophy, and in general, are a complex matter. Usually they already have antecedents in earlier thought, and the contemporary thinker sharpens and formulates them better and conceptualizes insights that can already be found before him as well.