Kant

American  

[kant, kahnt] / kænt, kɑnt /

noun

1. Immanuel 1724–1804, German philosopher.

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Kant British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

The nine-judge constitutional bench, set up by Chief Justice Surya Kant, will also consider other similar cases from different faiths.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

In ‘Critique of Judgment,’ Immanuel Kant argues that taste—the discerning appreciation of the beautiful and good—requires the critic to remain disinterested, unmoved by their own feelings of delight or aversion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

“It is not about your headline numbers of gigawatts. It’s about your ability to deliver data centers,” Eiso Kant, a co-founder of Poolside, said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

Schopenhauer, Kant, Nietzsche, naturally, I read all of those.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey