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Philosopher of the Week. Nov. 25th, 2002.

Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

Prussia

Immanuel Kant was born and raised in Konigsberg, Prussia, now called Kaliningrad, Russia. He was a man of structure and lived an uneventful life. He was so structured that people in Konigsberg set their watches by when they saw Kant walk by each day on his daily walk. He didn't marry, wasn't ever ill, and never traveled, but was a great thinker.

Kant lived at a time when philosophy was divided. One group of philosophers believed that knowledge came from experience, called empiricism. The other group said that human reason made sense of the world, called ration