The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

called his philosophy the Critical Philosophy or Critical Idealism.

"Strange contrast," reflects Heine, "between the man's outward life and his destructive, world-smashing thoughts."

In Kant modern science, which began with Descartes and Galileo, first became conscious of itself.

understanding of what he meant by criticism, and why he opposes it to dogmatism and scepticism; for the necessity and possibility of such a criticism was his great philosophical discovery.