Descartes Vs. Kant

To fully explain the differences between philosophers such as Descartes and Kant from early, we must first step back and look at the structure of philosophy and then go into the factual differences of each philosopher and their beliefs. Philosophy can be broken down into five different subdivisions and schools of thought, which are: aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, epistemology and ethics. However, many philosophers have thought of several different disciplines of philosophy and they are not parallel with one another. Western Philosophy can be broken down into three epochs: the ancient epoch, the medieval epoch and the modern epoch. The ancient epoch was mainly utilized by schools of thought from Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. On the other hand, medieval epoch was mostly for Christianity thus incorporates philosophers such as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. The modern epoch embraces schools of thought that are ruled by Christianity and lead by Descartes. It is important to note that St. Thomas Aquinas, Plato, and Socrates all agree that particular eternal moral and political realities or actualities are reachable to human reason.

He believes that people can absorb or acquire complete virtue and obtain actuality or reality. He pursued universal doctrines or ethics by following the pure, shared connotation of expressions, and made us all think more about some of the simple questions of knowledge and ethics. This was accomplished by Socrates using the Socratic method, in that he used conversations of questions and answers to sort of turn their answers back on themselves like a lawyer might do to a witness in a court room. In summary, Socrates argued that an individual is at no point supposed to do wrong whether in a direct or indirect manner and no individual who knows or distinguishes what is right will act in an opposing