Kantian
adjective
of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy of Kant.
pre-Kantian
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a word derived from
Kantian.
Example Sentences
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The pre-Kantian stage of Schiller's aesthetic philosophy is of quite minor importance.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
By vindicating with fervid eloquence the participation of the whole man in the highest questions, in opposition to the one-sided illumination of the understanding, he became a pre-Kantian defender of the faith of practical reason.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
First, as opposed to the theory of partial relativity generally held by the pre-Kantian philosophers, according to which our sensitive cognitions are relative, our intellectual ones absolute.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
The pre-Kantian thinker had proceeded to the discussion of knowledge without raising the question of the possibility of knowledge.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
A mirror of modern culture, and conscious of its sharp antithesis to Scholasticism, modern philosophy in its pre-Kantian period is pre-eminently characterized by naturalism.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
