He asserted the absolute worth of the individual against the. destructive monism of Spinoza, and saw in the progress of history a movement of the monads toward some divine end. On the one hand, he made the development of materialism and skepticism impossible in Germany, and, on the other hand, he brought about the teleological explanation of the history of the univerbe as a whole. Kant's empirical and rationalistic elements of Tranacen- the prevailing dogmatic philosophy. In the first instance Kant's work was purely epistemological. It was Kant who utterly demolished the rationalistic arguments of Anselm, Descartes, and others, for the existence of God.
Science is valid, but it has to do only with phenomena.
This phenomenal world, however, is produced a priori by the activity of consciousness, reacting upon that external reality whose nature cannot be known. The very fact that the world as we know it is only the sum total of phenomena accounts for the constancy of experience, and. Last updated on June 13, 2000.