... "Critique of Pure Reason," Immanual Kant attempts to explain how rationality can reason absolutes truths of knowledge, particularly concepts of intellectual representation such as space and time, without having to rely on the senses, which would be more in line to what Hegel and the empiricism school of thought. One of the main concepts Kant tries to explain is a priori, or to put it another way, universal truths of ... everyone agrees you shouldn't murder or steal. How these universals are understood and gained is where systems begin to differ. After reading the teachings of Kant, it i...

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... which does it justice." Walter Benjamin When Europe designed itself as the centre of "Enlightenment", also know as the Age of Reason, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it did so with the knowledge that an "unenlightened periphery" was thereby constructed. Thus an irreducible and fundamental bipolar structural opposition was constructed. "Enlightenment", by definition, ... were led by the light of reason. As such it was distinguished from the darkness, which supposedly characterised the Middle Ages, but also "primitive" peoples. Kant, one of the last Enlightenment thinkers, sai...

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