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His ideas on freedom, morality, and reason have shaped modern philosophy and continue influencing thinkers worldwide. Discover Kant's life, work, and enduring impact on our world understanding.

✅Biography of Immanuel Kant

Kant brought eighteenth-century Western philosophy to a new height of ambition. He saw his task, as a philosopher to answer three essential questions: “What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope?”

He approached these questions through “transcendental idealism,” which is founded on the idea that we live in a world consisting of what we are capable of experiencing through our senses (the natural world) and what we cannot experience sensually (the “supersensible” realm of the soul and God).

True knowledge of the supersensible is impossible. All we know comes from
things we can experience. “What can I know?” The directly observable world. The realm beyond the physical, the realm contemplated in metaphysics, we cannot know.

“What should I do?” is answered via Kant’s ethics, which centers on his concept of a “categorical imperative,” a universal ethical principle holding that one must respect the humanity in others and act according to rules that could apply to everyone.

Because moral law is a truth of reason, all rational creatures are bound by the same moral law. What, then, should I do? Act rationally by the universal moral law. Kant’s ethics form a bridge between knowledge and belief.

The philosopher argues that his theory of ethics requires belief in free will, God, and the soul's immortality. Of none of these can we know; however, to contemplate the categorical imperative of the universal moral law justifies belief in them.

Thus, in default of knowledge, we are permitted a rational faith, and this is the answer to “What may I hope?” We are justified in hoping that there is a God and that our souls are immortal.

Kant’s body of epistemological and ethical philosophy would have been an ample achievement for any philosopher, but he also created a brilliant and still-relevant theory of aesthetics, a theory of knowledge that continues to be foundational to analytic philosophy, a political theory that remains useful, and contributions to cosmology that retain relevance even in our era of advanced astrophysics.

Immanuel Kant was born on April 22, 1724, in Königsberg, Prussia (modern Kaliningrad, Russia). His parents were pietist Lutherans, a devotion against which young Kant rebelled.

He studied at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg and then the University of Königsberg, embarking on a course in the classics but soon focusing instead on philosophy. Following the death of his father in 1746, Kant left the university and was hired as a private tutor for several prosperous families.


Less well-known works include Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason (1793), Towards Perpetual Peace (1795), Metaphysics of Morals (1797), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798).

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