Kant

[ kant; German kahnt ]

noun

1. Im·man·u·el [ih-, man, -yoo-, uh, l, ih-, mah, -noo-el], 1724–1804, German philosopher.

Kant

/ kant; kænt /

noun

1. KantImmanuel17241804MGermanPHILOSOPHY: philosopher 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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I quote Immanuel Kant in my preface, defining enlightenment as mankind coming out of its self-imposed immaturity.

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A person, Kant tells us, is crooked timber from which no straight thing can be made.

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There has never been so concise and definitive a debunking of Kant's categorical imperative.

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What begins as a literary family drama turns slowly into a heady horror story, part Stephen King and part Immanuel Kant.

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According to Immanuel Kant, a genius could be understood as someone whose work was both "original and exemplary."

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This majestic conception was first advanced, in modern times at least, by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.

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We lay down of the edge of the kant, and my ears eagerly drank in the words which fell on them.

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Aristotle was the father of logic, and Hegel and Kant think there has been no improvement upon it since his day.

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What was the value of Kant's essay upon this popular saying?

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He had heard of Kant, and seen what 'the poor man would be at.'

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