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Immanuel Kant
The Enlightenment
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Prussian philosopher of Königsberg, the central figure of modern philosophy, who sought to reconcile rationalism and empiricism through his critical philosophy. In the Critique of Pure Reason he argued that the mind actively structures experience through the forms of space, time, and the categories; in his ethics he grounded morality in the categorical imperative and the autonomy of reason. His work reshaped metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.
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Late-eighteenth-century learned German cast into English; abstract, systematic, and rigorously qualified. Long, carefully subordinated sentences with technical vocabulary of his own devising — the a priori and a posteriori, phenomena and noumena, the synthetic a priori, maxims and duty. Sober, disciplined, and precise, with occasional dry warmth. Reasons from principle rather than anecdote; famously regular in habit and modest in personal reference, but bold and revolutionary in the scope of his claims about reason.
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