EDGING IMMANUIL. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

the Great philosopher was the person of small growth and a sickly constitution. The old bachelor defining marriage as ' the contract on mutual transfer to using of respective parts of a body ', it and did not marry. When Edging have asked, what women, in its opinion, are inclined to bolshej fidelity - blondes or brunettes, it without reflecting has answered: ' Gray-haired '. And still friends of the philosopher noticed that he was able not only to work, but also to have a good time, a rest, combining thoughtful learning with a secular lustre. Immanuil at all was not the hermit, the eremite, the person ' other-wordly '. By the nature it was sociable, on education and a way of life - is gallant.

In 1787 ' the Criticism of pure reason ' has been published repeatedly. In the meantime the Edging has been selected by the rector of university, and the Berlin academy of sciences has for life included it in number of the members. These years the philosopher could not complain of an inattention to the work any more. However its ideas no means always understood, as before. One for another there were any more articles, and the whole books directed against it. Him accused of scepticism and panegoism.

The Edging only in rare instances answered opponents as before it the prospect of studying of ethics - a subject round which great philosophers for a long time argued has opened and to which he aspired many years. In this area of a merit of the Edging are not less great, than in gnoseology.

The First regular statement of ethics the Edging has undertaken in the book ' Bases of metaphysics of customs ' which was issued in 1785 In it it aspired to show unity of morals and a science. After three years left ' Criticism of practical reason '. In these two works the beginnings of the Kant doctrine about morals have been stated only. Only in old age the philosopher managed to create work where its ethics have appeared in a complete kind, - ' Metaphysics of customs '. The scientist confirmed basic independence of moral principles: ' the good is kindly even if nobody is kind '. The philosophical analysis of moral concepts testified that they are not deduced from experience, they are initially put in reason of the person.