Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant, born April 22, 1724, in Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia], is the philosopher whose comprehensive and systematic work in epistemology (the theory of knowledge), ethics, and aesthetics greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy, especially the various schools of Kantianism and idealism. Kant was one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment and arguably one…