This reading list consists of the best books on and by Immanuel Kant. Kant is perhaps best known for his synthesis of early modern rationalism (think Descartes’s cogito ergo sum) and empiricism (think John Locke’s tablua rasa), as well as for his categorical imperative (‘act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time, will that it should become a universal law’). This is due to the hugely significant contributions the German philosopher - born in 1724 in Königsberg (then part of Prussia) - made to to virtually every area of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Immanuel Kant is considered by some to be the greatest ever philosopher in the history of Western philosophy - or at least certainly since the ancient Greeks Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
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