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Immanuel Kant

German philosopher (1724–1804)

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Immanuel Kant
Portrait of Kant, 1768
Born	Emanuel Kant (1724-04-22)22 April 1724 Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	12 February 1804(1804-02-12) (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
Notable ideas

Immanuel Kant^[a] (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetic

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Era	18th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Kantianism, enlightenment philosophy
Main interests	Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics
Notable ideas	Categorical imperative, Transcendental idealism, Synthetic a priori, Noumenon, Sapere aude, Nebular hypothesis
Influences Wolff, Baumgarten, Tetens, Hutcheson, Empiricus, Montaigne, Hume, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau, Newton, Emanuel Swedenborg
Influenced Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Cassirer, Habermas, Rawls, Chomsky, Nozick, Karl Popper, Kierkegaard, Jung, Searle, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, Giovanni Gentile, Karl Jaspers, Hayek, Bergson, Ørsted, A.J. Ayer, Emerson, Weininger, P.F. Strawson, John McDowell

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a Germanphilosopher born in Königsberg, East Prussia. Kant studied philosophy at the University of Königsberg, and later be

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There is no aspect of modern Western philosophy that does not bear the influence of Immanuel Kant. Without ever leaving the vicinity of his hometown of Königsberg, the philosopher changed the course of ethics, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and aesthetics.

Kant was born in 1724 in Königsberg, then East Prussia, now part of Russia, to a harness-maker of modest means. As a boy, Kant was sent to a Pietist school for his early education. At sixteen, he enrolled in the University of Königsberg, also known as the Albertina, where he became interested in philosophy.

When Kant graduated six years later, he was not financially able immediately to pursue his academic career, and, therefore, worked as a private tutor for several years. At the age of 31, he obtained an unsalaried position as a private docent at the university, lecturing an average of twenty hours per week on an array of subjects including logic, metaphysics, mathematics, and physical geography. In addition to teaching the dominant Wolffian-Leibnizian philosophy, Kant also incorporated ideas from abroad. David Hume (1711–177