Meet Mr Green; Great philosophers; Immanuel Kant.(Books and Arts)(Review)

The Economist (US) | May 5, 2001 | Copyright

KANT: A BIOGRAPHY.

IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804) never set foot outside his native East Prussia. For all but a few years of his long, uneventful life he lived and taught in the Baltic port of Konigsberg. Yet no philosopher since Aristotle has exercised such influence. Kant's thought transformed how the modern world approached enduring problems in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics. "The Critique of Pure Reason" ranks among the most important works of philosophy ever written; it is still one of the most difficult. Lord Macaulay, a great English historian, ...

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