Guide To Philosophers

Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804)

Biography

German philosopher and founder of critical philosophy. The son of a saddler, Kant was born and educated in Köningsberg (Kaliningrad) in East Prussia. After leaving the university he spent a number of years in private tutoring, but taking his master's degree in 1755, he settled to teach a variety of subjects as Privatdozent. In 1770 he was appointed to the chair of logic and metaphysics at Köningsberg. It was after this that he entered on his greatest, "critical" period. His life was orderly to the point of caricature: he never left Köningsberg, and never married.

In spite of notorious difficulty of reading Kant, made worse by his penchant for scholastic systematization and obscure terminology, his place as the greatest philosopher of the latest three hundred years is well assured.

Works

Universal Natural History And Theory On The Heavens (1755)
Dreams of A Spirit-Seer (1766)
Inaugural Dissertation (1770)
The critique of Pure Reason (1781)
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)
Crituiqe of Practical Reason (1788)
Crituiqe of Judgement (1790)
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786)
Religion within the Reason Alone (1793)
Perpetual Peace (1795)
Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals (1797), often translated in two parts: The Metaphysical Principles of Right and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue.
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
The Science of Right

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