Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804 · Germany · Philosophy
The categorical imperative and the limits of knowledge.
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Who shaped Immanuel Kant, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- René Descartes
1596 – 1650 · Philosophy, Mathematics
Kant's critical turn answers the Cartesian question of what the thinking subject can know.
Passed the work to2
- Arne Næss
1912 – 2009 · Philosophy, Environment
Næss's ecosophy extends Kantian intrinsic worth beyond persons to living systems.
- G. W. F. Hegel
1770 – 1831 · Philosophy
Hegel's system begins as a repair of Kant's unknowable thing-in-itself.
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