Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher (1724-1804), or to his system of philosophy.
- noun A follower of Kant; a Kantist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A follower of Kant; a Kantist.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant.
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- adjective philosophy Of, pertaining to, or resembling the
philosophical views of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). - noun philosophy A person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant.
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- adjective of or relating to Immanuel Kant or his philosophy
Etymologies
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Examples
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I.e., those who imagined the Copenhagen narrative had been steeped in Kantian idealism.
June 5th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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It is not our business here to oppose the application of the name Kantian to modernist philosophy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Each recalls the Kantian claim that objectivity requires space, or that grasping something as independent from oneself requires the experience of space, a version of which is deployed by Strawson
Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009
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Schopenhauer can be called a Kantian, but he did not always agree with the details of Kant's arguments.
Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007
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Between these two accounts of the Kantian legacies of the aesthetic — or what one might call the Kantian insistence — Karen Swann discerns and examines a certain recurrent "shape" in Shelley's poetry, "a beautiful, slumbering human form" (1).
Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence 2005
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First, the approach must have what I would call a Kantian element: that is, it must have as a fundamental ethical starting point a view that we must respect each individual sentient being as an end in itself, not a mere means to the ends of others.
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First, the approach must have what I would call a Kantian element: that is, it must have as a fundamental ethical starting point a view that we must respect each individual sentient being as an end in itself, not a mere means to the ends of others.
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First, the approach must have what I would call a Kantian element: that is, it must have as a fundamental ethical starting point a view that we must respect each individual sentient being as an end in itself, not a mere means to the ends of others.
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First, the approach must have what I would call a Kantian element: that is, it must have as a fundamental ethical starting point a view that we must respect each individual sentient being as an end in itself, not a mere means to the ends of others.
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The Louvre realized a kind of Kantian ideal for art as the object of disinterested contemplation.
Napoleon's Eye Brooks, Peter 2009
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