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Article: Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)
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KANT, IMMANUEL (1724
–
1804)
KANT, IMMANUEL
(1724
–
1804), German philosopher. Immanuel Kant was born 24 April 1724 in K
ö
nigsberg (now Kaliningrad) in East Prussia. He attended a Pietist school and the University of K
ö
nigsberg and in 1755, after six years as a private tutor, obtained a position at his university. Promoted to professor there in 1770, he taught and served in administrative posts until 1798 and died 12 February 1804.
CENTRAL IDEAS
Kant's predecessors had treated knowledge as beginning from data about the world that the mind passively receives from the senses or through immediate insight into eternal truths or ideas. Kant, by contrast, made the ...