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Immanuel Kant

(1724-1804 )
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Biography

Immanuel Kant was baptized as "Emanuel"but later changed his name to "Immanuel"

after he learned Hebrew.was born in 1724 in Knigsberg, as thefourth of nine children.

His father Johann Georg Kant (1682-1746)was a German craftsman from Memel.His mother Anna Regina Porter (1697-1737)

was the daughter of a saddle/harness maker.


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was raised in a Pietist household, a then-popular Lutheran reform movement thatstressed intense religious devotion, personal

humility, and a literal reading of the Bible. Kant received a stern education strict,punitive, and disciplinary that favored

Latin and religious instruction overmathematics and science.


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The young scholarKant enrolled in University of Knigsberg in1740, at the age of 16.He studied the philosophy of Leibniz andWolff under Martin Knutsen, a rationalist who

was also familiar with the developments ofBritish philosophy and science and whointroduced Kant to the new mathematical

physics of Newton.


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Kant became a private tutor in the smallertowns surrounding Knigsberg, but continuedhis scholarly research.1770 >> at the age of 45, Kant was finallyappointed Professor of Logic andMetaphysics at the University of Knigsberg.


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At the age of 46, Kant was an establishedscholar and an increasingly influentialphilosopher.

When Kant emerged from his silence in1781, the result was the Critique of PureReason .

Although now uniformly recognized as one ofthe greatest works in the history ofphilosophy, this Critique was largely ignoredupon its initial publication.

The critical turn


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Kant's later work

Kant published a second edition of theCritique of Pure Reason in 1787, heavilyrevising the first parts of the book.He continued to develop his moralphilosophy, notably in 1788's Critique ofPractical Reason (known as the secondCritique) and 1797's Metaphysics of Morals .


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The 1790 Critique of Judgment (the third Critique)applied the Kantian system to aesthetics andteleology. He also wrote a number of semi-popularessays on history, religion, politics and other topics.These works were well received by Kant'scontemporaries and confirmed his preeminentstatus in eighteenth century philosophy.The Enlightenments motto: Sapere aude ("Dare toKnow") = think autonomously and free from dictate of any

authorityKant's health, long poor, turned for the worseand he died in 1804.
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Kant's health, long poor,turned for the worse and hedied in 1804.

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