Kant
/kænt/- Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804), German philosopher. In the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) he countered Hume's sceptical empiricism by arguing that any affirmation or denial regarding the ultimate nature of reality ('noumenon') makes no sense. All we can know are the objects of experience ('phenomena'), interpreted by space and time and ordered according to twelve key concepts. Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788) affirms the existence of an absolute moral law - the categorical imperative.康德, 伊曼纽尔(1724-1804, 德国哲学家, 在《纯粹理性批判》[1781]中, 他驳斥了休姆的经验主义怀疑论, 主张任何关于现实的终极本质[即本体]的肯定或否定都是毫无意义的, 我们所能知道的一切只不过是经验的对象或曰“现象”, 它们是用时间和空间来解释, 且依照十二种主要概念加以整理; 康德的《实践理性批判》[1788]肯定了绝对道德法则, 即绝对命令的存在)。
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Kantian adjective & noun, Kantianism noun.