Immanuel Kant

High school (ages 12+)
Philosophy & Big Questions

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1. When was Immanuel Kant born?April 22, 1724
2. When did Immanuel Kant die?February 12, 1804 (age 79)
3. Where was Immanuel Kant born?Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
4. Who was Immanuel Kant?Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher born in 1724 who spent his life in Königsberg and is famous for his ideas about how we understand the world.
5. What did Kant say about space and time?Kant believed that space and time are not real objects in the world, but ways our mind organizes everything we see.

A Priori Knowledge: Knowledge that is independent of experience, derived from reason alone, such as mathematical truths.
Noumena and Phenomena: Noumena are things-in-themselves, unknowable reality; phenomena are appearances of things as we experience them.
Deontology: An ethical theory that judges the morality of an action based on adherence to rules or duties, rather than consequences.