Consequentialism immanuel kant biography

1. Brief Vita

The most important European philosopher of the last millennium, there is virtually no area of modern philosophy that has not been influenced by the work of Immanuel Kant.

Kant was born the son of a saddle-maker in 1724 in Königsberg, East Prussia, a city which, famously, he never left.

After completing his schooling at the Pietist Collegium Fredericianum, Kant began his studies at the University of Königsberg, which was to be his base for all of his academic life. He became Privatdozent at the University, where he was obliged to lecture for long hours on a wide array of subjects, including physics, mathematics, anthropology and pedagogy, with no regular income beyond the money paid to him by lecture audiences.

Both his studies and his teaching were dominated by Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophy and Newtonian mechanics, but during his time as Privatdozent Kant managed to publish a number of scientific and metaphysical pieces that established him as a rigorous philo