Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Portrait by Johann Gottlieb Becker, 1768
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a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.
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Born
22 April 1724 Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Kaliningrad, Russia )
Died
12 February 1804 (aged 79) Königsberg, East Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia
Institutions
University of Königsberg
Academic advisors
Martin Knutzen, Johann Gottfried Teske (M.A. advisor), Konrad Gottlieb Marquardt
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Germany
Education
Collegium Fridericianum University of Königsberg ( B.A. ; M.A., April 1755; PhD, September 1755; PhD, August 1770)
era
1600-1800
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Main interests
Aesthetics, cosmogony, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, systematic philosophy
Notable ideas
Abstract–concrete distinction Aesthetic – teleological judgments Analytic–synthetic distinction Categorical and hypothetical imperative Categories Cosmotheology Critical philosophy Copernican revolution
Notable students
Jakob Sigismund Beck, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Karl Leonhard Reinhold (epistolary correspondent)
Region
Western philosophy
Theses
Principiorum primorum cognitionis metaphysicae nova dilucidatio (September 1755) De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis (August 1770)