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Kant

(kănt, känt), Immanuel 1724-1804.

German philosopher whose synthesis of rationalism and empiricism, in which he argued that reason is the means by which the phenomena of experience are translated into understanding, inspired 19th-century German idealism. His classic works include Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788), in which he put forward a system of ethics based on the categorical imperative.

Kant′i·an adj. & n.

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Kant

(kænt; German kant)

(Biography) 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)

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Kant

(kænt, kɑnt)

n.

Immanuel, 1724–1804, German philosopher.

Kant′i•an, adj., n.

Kant′i•an•ism, n.

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Kant - influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)

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Of late in Moscow and in the country, since he had become convinced that he would find no solution in the materialists, he had read and reread thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life.

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So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight.

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Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

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In the earlier series of books containing, among others, Bosanquet's "History of Aesthetic," Pfleiderer's "Rational Theology since Kant," Albee's "History of English Utilitarianism," Bonar's "Philosophy and Political Economy," Brett's "History of Psychology," Ritchie's "Natural Rights," these objects were to a large extent effected.

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From the time of Descartes to Hume and Kant it has had little or nothing to do with facts of science.

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Such has Swedenborg, such has Kant, such has Coleridge, such has Hegel or his interpreter Cousin seemed to many young men in this country.

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De Quincey was hardly less autobiographical when he wrote of Kant, or the Flight of the Crim-Tartars, than when he wrote of his own boyhood or the miseries of the opium habit.

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miself ure onur nose I kant bee of ani farder sarvis to u in that

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Also, he used to call me his dualist, and he would explain how Kant, by means of pure reason, had abolished reason, in order to worship God.

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Neither did Kant when he devised the Categorical Imperative.

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"Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant?"

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If one classed him at all it would be as the countryman of Hegel and Kant, as the idealist, inclined to be dreamy, whose Imperialism was the Imperialism of the air.