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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who lived from 1724 to 1804 and fundamentally shaped how we think about knowledge, morality, and human reasoning. His ideas remain influential in philosophy today because he bridged the gap between different schools of thought and offered new ways of understanding how our minds work and what we can know about the world.
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- 22 April 1724
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- 12 February 1804
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- 1724-04-22
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- 1804-02-12
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36 objects attributed to Immanuel Kant, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. His comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, political theory, and the philosophy of religion have made him one of the most influential and highly discussed figures in modern Western philosophy.
Kant's philosophy is centered on the human subject and motivated by the desire to secure the possibility of both knowledge and morality against the threats of skepticism and determinism. In the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), Kant argues for transcendental idealism, the doctrine that space and time are mere "forms of intuition" (German: Anschauung) that structure all experience and that we have knowledge only of "appearances" and not of the nature of things in themselves. Kant drew a parallel to the Copernican Revolution in his proposal to think of the objects of experience as conforming to people's spatial and temporal forms of intuition and the categories of the understanding, instead of the traditional method of showing how the mind might conform to its objects.
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