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Kant also suggested a material origin for the solar system (prior to Kant, the origin of the solar system was considered to be immaterial and possibly even a priori).  Kant's own suggestion for a moral daily life was the [[categorical imperative]]: ''Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law''.  It does not mean that an act is moral only if it works as a rule for everyone as that is consequentialist. Kant uses the example of suicide out of self-love being wrong in that it is contradictory to love oneself and want to commit suicide.  Thus, the maxim is contradictory and cannot be a universal law. On the other hand, if a murderer asks you where someone is hiding, you should always tell them because lying is wrong.  The categorical imperative can be contrasted with the [[hypothetical imperative]], which says that you should act according to any maxim which might possibly be willed.  He remained single throughout his life, though he said, toward the end of it, that he could not afford a wife in his youth and did not need one in his old age. Kant's aim was to make philosophy  truly scientific.

Kant also suggested a material origin for the solar system (prior to Kant, the origin of the solar system was considered to be immaterial and possibly even a priori).  Kant's own suggestion for a moral daily life was the [[categorical imperative]]: ''Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law''.  It does not mean that an act is moral only if it works as a rule for everyone as that is consequentialist. Kant uses the example of suicide out of self-love being wrong in that it is contradictory to love oneself and want to commit suicide.  Thus, the maxim is contradictory and cannot be a universal law. On the other hand, if a murderer asks you where someone is hiding, you should always tell them because lying is wrong.  The categorical imperative can be contrasted with the [[hypothetical imperative]], which says that you should act according to any maxim which might possibly be willed.  He remained single throughout his life, though he said, toward the end of it, that he could not afford a wife in his youth and did not need one in his old age. Kant's aim was to make philosophy  truly scientific.

The “Philosopher of Protestantism” was [[Immanuel Kant]] (1724-1804), a German philosopher who was raised and died a Lutheran but questioned and analyzed is own faith.   

==Philosopher of Protestantism==

 

Kant was raised and died a Lutheran but questioned and analyzed his own faith.  Kant transformed Protestantism from a dependence on a literal interpretation of the Bible into a dependence on each person’s own mind as the ultimate religious authority.  He shifted the [[faith]] away from the Bible and towards a dogmatic voluntarism and sentimentalism.  Phenomena "are nothing but ideas, and cannot exist at all beyond our minds." He concluded that revelation and churches can at best be "adventitious aids."

Kant transformed German Protestantism from a dependence on a literal interpretation of the Bible into a dependence on each person’s own mind as the ultimate religious authority.  He shifted the German [[faith]] away from the Bible and towards a dogmatic voluntarism and sentimentalism.  Phenomena “are nothing but ideas, and cannot exist at all beyond our minds.” He concluded that revelation and churches can at best be “adventitious aids.”