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Immanuel Kant: Most Influential Thinker Of The Enlightenment Period

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Life: Kant was born in Koenigsberg, Prussia in 1724. He is a German philosopher, who is considered the most influential thinker of the Enlightenment era and is one of the greatest Western philosopher of all times. His works on Epistemology ( the theory of knowledge ), Aesthetics and Ethics had a great influence on all philosophers, but especially on the different schools of Kantianism and Idealism. In him were excluded new trends that had begun with the rationalism of Rene Descartes and the empiricism of Francis Bacon. Immanuel Kant was born to Johann Georg Cant and his wife Anna Regina Cant. His grandfather was from Scotland where the surname Cant is relatively common in the north. Immanuel decided to change his surname from Cant into Kant

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