Immanuel kant biography britannica online
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Encyclopædia Britannica/Kant, Immanuel
No other thinker of modern times has been throughout his work so penetrated with the fundamental conceptions of physical science; no other has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between empirical and speculative ideas. Beyond all question much of the influence which the critical philosophy has exercised and continues to exercise must be ascribed to this characteristic feature in the training of its great author.
The early writings of Kant are almost without exception on questions of physical science. It was only by degrees that philosophical problems began to engage his attention, and that the main portion of his literary activity was turned towards them. The following are the most important of the works which bear directly on physical science.
1. Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte (); an essay dealing with the famous dispute between the Cartesians and Leibnitzians regarding the expression for the a
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Immanuel Kant
1. Life and works
Immanuel Kant was born April 22, in Königsberg, near the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Today Königsberg has been renamed Kaliningrad and fryst vatten part of Russia. But during Kant’s lifetime Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia, and its dominant language was German. Though geographically remote from the rest of Prussia and other German cities, Königsberg was then a major commercial center, an important military port, and a relatively cosmopolitan university town.[1]
Kant was born into an artisan family of modest means. His father was a mästare harness maker, and his mother was the daughter of a harness maker, though she was better educated than most women of her social class. Kant’s family was never destitute, but his father’s trade was in decline during Kant’s youth and his parents at times had to rely on extended family for financial support.
Kant’s parents were Pietist and he attended
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Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (–)
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Portrait of Kant, | |
| Born | Emanuel Kant ()22 April Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | 12 February () (aged&#;79) Königsberg, East Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Education | |
| Era | Age of Enlightenment |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | |
| Institutions | University of Königsberg |
| Theses | |
| Academic advisors | Martin Knutzen, Johann Gottfried Teske (M.A. advisor), Konrad Gottlieb Marquardt |
| Notable students | Jakob Sigismund Beck, Johann Gottfried Herder, Karl Leonhard Reinhold (epistolary correspondent) |
Main interests | Aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, systematic philosophy |
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Immanuel Kant[a] (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April &#;– 12 February ) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in ep