Kant

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher. A philosopher who had almost all the answers...almost. Today I read a bit about his beliefs and teachings. He believed that we are born knowing good and evil (moral law), that humans are meant (not are, but are meant) to be perfect, and that a perfectly just God must exist (he proclaimed it as a "postulate of his system", something necessary in order for him to exist). Kant was very close to the truth. Close, but not there. He believed that humans had to achieve perfection, not through a miracle, but through an eternity of trying, "an endless progress from the lower to higher degrees of moral perfection". He further believed that when doing good, man should not do it because of promised reward, but because of hard, cold duty. Rack up another philosopher who knew all the right things but came to very wrong conclusions. If only he had stopped trying to figure things out on his own and went to the one source where he could have found all the answers.