Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy. In his doctrine of transcendental idealism he argued that space time and causation are mere sensibilities thingsinthemselves exist but their nature is unknowable. In his view the mind shapes and structures experience with all human experience sharing certain structural features. He drew a parallel to the Copernican revolution in his proposition that worldly objects can be intuited a priori beforehand and that intuition is therefore independent from objective reality. Kant believed that reason is the source of morality and that aesthetics arise from a faculty of disinterested judgment. Kants views continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy especially the fields of metaphysics epistemology ethics political theory and postmodern aesthetics. Source: Wikipedia