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Immanuel Kant

1724 - 1804

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Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and highly discussed figures in modern Western philosophy. In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, Kant argued that space and time are mere "forms of intuition" that structure all experience and that the objects of experience are mere "appearances". The nature of things as they are in themselves is unknowable to us. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Immanuel Kant is the 7th most popular philosopher (up from 8th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Russian Philosopher.

Immanuel Kant is most famous for his work in the philosophy of ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics. He was a German philosopher who lived from 1724-1804.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Immanuel Kant ranks 7 out of 1,267. Before him are Gautama Buddha, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Confucius, and Pythagoras. After him are René Descartes, Avicenna, Laozi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baruch Spinoza, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

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Among people born in 1724, Immanuel Kant ranks 1. After him are Maria Amalia of Saxony, John Michell, Cao Xueqin, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Louise of Great Britain, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, Peter von Biron, and Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Among people deceased in 1804, Immanuel Kant ranks 1. After him are Joseph Priestley, Alexander Hamilton, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Jacques Necker, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Pierre Méchain, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Immanuel Kant ranks 2 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821). After him are Vladimir Lenin (1870), Vladimir Putin (1952), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Dmitri Mendeleev (1834).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Immanuel Kant ranks 1. After him are Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), and P. D. Ouspensky (1878).

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