SUMMARY

Overall, Kant focused on the individual with his ideas on human intuition an morality, Hegel on the group with his historicism, Kierkegaard on the individual with his three stages of life, and Marx on the group with his ideas of material change and struggling for the means of production. We can see a pattern as we put there ideas next to each other- individual, group, individual, group- and this is somewhat expressive of Hegel's theory, where the process of history is dialectical (these philosophers negate each other). Kant would say that a lot of the knowledge they have to offer does not require experience to attain, and this is a lot like a priori knowledge; the reason we philosophize at all is to answer "Why?" and this goes to prove Kant's causality. Kierkegaard's viewpoint would be that Marx is purely aesthetic while saying that there is not enough focus being put on finding purpose valuable to us all. Marx would say that our capitalist society will self destruct if people have to keep working for the things they help accomplish.