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1 Immanuel (ɪˈmaːnueːl). 1724–1804, German idealist philosopher. He sought to determine the limits of man's knowledge in Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and propounded his system of ethics as guided by the categorical imperative in Critique of Practical Reason (1788)

Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)

From Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture
Immanuel Kant, like Plato and Aristotle, counts as one of the most influential philosophers of all time. He developed a new theory of time and space that combined insights from rationalism and empiricism. In his practical philosophy he developed a completely new approach, which makes Kant one of the most distinguished scholars of the European Enlightenment. Kant was born in Königsberg (formerly East Prussia, since 1945 renamed Kaliningrad, Russia) on April 22, 1724, as the son of a saddler. He was brought up in the spirit of Pietism, a Lutheran movement that focused on love, which is realized through duty and good deeds. He never left Königsberg. It was there where he went to school and attended university, where he received permission to teach as a university lecturer (Privatdozent) in 1755, and again where he was appointed full professor of logic and metaphysics in 1770 after declining an offer from Jena in 1769. He held this position for the rest of his life and died on February 12, …
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From The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics
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Kant’s philosophical career reflects the breadth of his teaching and his interests. When, after 1770, he finally came to write the works for which he is most famous, namely the three ‘Critiques’, he addressed what he saw as the fundamental questions that cover human concerns: ‘What can I know?’, …
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Immanuel Kant (The Library of Congress)
The major works of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant analyze speculative and moral reason and the faculty of human judgement. Kant exerted influence on the intellectual movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The fourth of nine children of Johann Georg and Anna Regina Kant, Immanuel…
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
An eighteenth-century German philosopher ; one of the leading philosophers of modern times. His views are called the Critical Philosophy , and his three best-known works are Critique of Pure Reason , Critique of Practical Reason , and Critique of Judgment . Kant was troubled because metaphysics had…
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From Collins Dictionary of Sociology
(1724-1804) pre-eminent German philosopher, whose major works include Critique of Pure Reason (1781), Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and Critique of Judgement (1790). He argued that our minds structure our experience of the world; we can never know the ‘things-in-themselves’ (Dinge-an-sich), …
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From Astronomy Encyclopedia
German philosopher whose cosmological speculations anticipated later discoveries about our Galaxy and others. Forced to work for room and board as a tutor after his father died, Kant studied the philosophy of science at the University of Königsberg, where he later became professor of logic and…
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From Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
German philosopher, and the deepest and most systematic thinker of the Enlightenment . Kant lived in relative removal from the political upheavals of the eighteenth century, and wrote little of direct political import; nevertheless his direct and indirect influence on legal and political thinking…
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From Political Philosophy A-Z
A German philosopher of the Enlightenment, whose moral theory provides the foundation for much contemporary liberal philosophical thought. Kant’s central contribution to political philosophy is in his articulation of a deontological moral theory (see deontology ) and a kind of contractualism (see…
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From Philosophy of Science A-Z
German philosopher, author of the ground-breaking Critique of Pure Reason (1781 – 2nd edn 1787). As he famously stated, it was Hume ’s critique of necessity in nature that awoke Kant from his dogmatic slumber. Kant rejected strict empiricism and uncritical rationalism . He claimed that although all…
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From Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) has had an enormous influence on cognitive research: the dominant model of the mind in contemporary cognitive science is thoroughly Kantian. Nonetheless, some of his most distinctive ideas have played little role in it . Immanuel Kant may be the single most influential…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
Modern theology, like modernity at large, is constantly tugged to and fro by the sibling rivalry of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is a decisive figure for understanding and assessing this rivalry. Professor at the University of Königsberg (the city in which he was…
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