Kant

[kant, kahnt]

noun

1. Immanuel 1724–1804, German philosopher.

Kant

/ kant, kænt /

noun

1. Immanuel (ɪˈmaːnueːl). 1724–1804, German idealist philosopher. He sought to determine the limits of man's knowledge in Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and propounded his system of ethics as guided by the categorical imperative in Critique of Practical Reason (1788)

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Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.

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Randall name-checks philosophers — Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, Marcus Aurelius — he misunderstands to his advantage and drops references to the Catiline Conspiracy and the Battle of Actium to make base actions sound important and dignified.

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Singer and composer Tori Amos shot in Los Angeles, California for her "Y Kant Tori Read" album in 1988.

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This goes back to Immanuel Kant and other philosophers.

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He said he would also attend a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of Russia's Kant military airbase which is located outside Bishkek, a strategically-important outpost which allows Moscow to project power in the region.

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