Immanuel Kant: A Forerunner of Phenomenology

Abstract

Edmund Husserl is widely regarded as the father of phenomenology, having developed the field in the 20th century and identifying himself as its pioneer in methodology and original philosophical inquiry. However, Phenomenological studies have existed in philosophical discussions throughout history. In particular, Immanuel Kant has introduced phenomenological temperament and used it generously in metaphysical and epistemic framework that can be vouched foundational in phenomenology of the 20th century. The study of noumena, phenomena, transcendental philosophy, and synthetic a priory and posterior has been dynamically instrumental in later philosophiesphenomenology in distinct. Thus, this study aims to determine Kant’s contribution towards the development of various sediments in phenomenology, which are fundamentally foundational and irreplaceable to the development of phenomenology as a movement. This substantiates Kant as the forerunner of phenomenology.