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

Mr. Sheehan explains that Christian history is not a story of autonomy, a notion of self-control he borrows from Kant’s ethics.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Goldstein’s punning premise would be meaningless in the languages of Pascal and Kant.

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It even cites Kant, who put forward the notion, revolutionary in the 18th century, that all persons are imbued with dignity.

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Among the most daunting questions are one on Immanuel Kant's philosophy of law and another involving gaming jargon.

From BBC

Like Smith, Kant identified commerce as the moral alternative to conquest and held that, in Mr. Easterly’s words, “the quest for respect would be as important as the quest to escape poverty.”

From The Wall Street Journal