ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant led the quiet life of a scholar as a professor of logic and metaphysics in Konigsberg, Prussia. Kant is known as the founder of critical philosophy. Surveying the new scientific truths of his time Kant embarked upon a voyage to obtain certain evidence of the human ability to know, his goal being the transcendence of the philosophical currents of his era, namely rationalism and empiricism. To this extent, Kant delineated the function of reason within the synthesis of sensory data. Yet Kant’s work was far more theoretically complex than a simplistic assertion of human rationalism. More importantly within the text, Kant espoused the concepts of free thought and reason within the public sphere. Kant articulated the ideal of the bourgeois public sphere, in which practical use of reason was thought to enable and institutionalize public forms of discourse.
