Discussion On The Thought Of Kant's Purpose Theory That People Are The Highest Purpose

Kant's philosophy is an ideological system of purpose theory that people are the highest purpose. In the purpose theory, Kant considered the nature , society, and people as an integrated system including purpose, and any element is also valuable part which is co-existence and co-effect in this system. However, only can people regulate self-purpose and judge the existence of nature's value. So people are the highest purpose of nature. Meanwhile, people are also the highest purpose of themselves. The process of nature to people is the process of people to civilized people. The necessity of nature and moral is certain to be integrated in the purpose theory. In Kant's philosophy, people are the thought of the highest purpose theory which had run through the beginning to the end, and which is not only embodied in the purpose of thought but also the thought of "Three Criticism". Just because the back of Kant's philosophy implicated the thought of people's highest purpose theory, his philosophical thought had a deep influence to the later philosophy, and it had played a very important role of historical value and reality value to the later philosophy, too. Kant's purpose discussion not only influenced directly to the classical Germany philosophy and modern western philosophy but influenced the Marxism philosophy deeply. It may say that classical Germany philosophers, modern western philosophers and Marxism philosophers who were under the influence of Kant's purpose theory had realized completely that people are the theme and the main body of the philosophy, people's problems are the core of the philosophical problems, and people are the highest purpose of philosophy. So people must have to be mentioned in philosophy, otherwise the philosophy would have no better future.This paper has three parts. The first part: to mainly introduce the ideological originality of the people's highest purpose theory in the western philosophy history. The second part: to mainly explicate the thought of people's highest purpose theory in Kant's philosophy. The third part: to mainly explicate the -reality and historical value of Kant's purpose theory, that is the influence on the later philosophy.