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Kant, Immanuel
KANT, IMMANUEL (1724–1804), German philosopher. Kant was born in Königsberg, a provincial town in East Prussia. He grew up in a religious family of relatively low social s...
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Immanuel Kant
1724-1804
German philosopher whose master work, The Critique of Pure Reason (1781), initiated a "Copernican Revolution" in philosophy by treating many of the observed featu...
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Kant, Immanuel
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was born in Köningsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), on April 22 and died there on February 12, having lived such an uneventful life ...
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Knowledge and Modality
The prominence of the modalities (i.e., necessity and contingency) in epistemological discussions is due to the influence of Immanuel Kant (1965), who maintained that:
All know...
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Kant, Immanuel(1724–1804)
Immanuel Kant, the propounder of the critical philosophy, was born at Königsberg in East Prussia; he was the son of a saddler and, according to his own account,...
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Kant, Immanuel [addendum]
Immanuel Kant's philosophy continues to exercise significant influence on philosophical developments and generates an ever-growing body of scholarly literature. Work o...
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The major works of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) offer an analysis of speculative and moral reason and the faculty of human judgment. He exerted an immense influence on the intellec...
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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 ...
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Considered one of the most important European philosophers of modern times, Immanuel Kant was not only a significant figure in the history of metaphysics, but also applied his keen intellect to fundam...
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Widely considered the foremost philosopher since classical antiquity, Immanuel Kant effected a revolution in philosophy. His influence on the development of science, theology, and philosophy is virtua...
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In the following excerpt from his Immanuel Kant: His Life and Doctrine (1902), Paulsen discusses the sources and historical importance of Kant's philosophy and outlines the central tenets of hi...
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In this essay, originally presented as three lectures at Columbia University in April, 1980, Rawls explores Kantian constructivism in moral theory (as illustrated by justice as fairness and adopted in...
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In the following essay, Korsgaard evaluates different interpretations regarding the kind of contradiction referred to in Kant's first formulation of the Categorical Imperative.
Kant's fi...
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In this essay, Reath traces Kant's derivation of the moral law from his conception of practical rationality.
1. Introduction
The primary concern of this paper is to outline an explanation of...
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In the following essay, Schneewind discusses Kant's conception of autonomy and the moral agent, and the ground of his obligation to the moral law.
Kant invented a new way of understanding moral...
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Nowadays, children seem to be too pampered by their parents. They do not realize the fact it is them who owe everything to their parents and not the parents. Children owe almost everything to their pa...
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The empirical nature of science has allowed for its success in solving great human problems and in understanding the world around us. Real life data and observations lead to such findings, which only ...
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Kant, Immanuel
Immanuel Kant
Kant, Immanuel
Knowledge and Modality
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Critical Essay by Friedrich Paulsen
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