Immanuel Kant Bio

Immanuel Kant was born on “22 April 1724, in Königsberg , what was then the capital city of East Prussia. He was the fourth born into his family of a total of ten children, however only three of his siblings would live until adulthood”. (Immanuel Kant)

Kant also attended college at the “University of Königsberg, where he soon became interested in philosophy. He was soon introduced to the popular philosophers of his day such as Christian Wolff and G.W. Leibniz. While working a brief stint as a tutor near his hometown, he published three works. he soon returned to his Alma matter as a teacher himself, although it as an unpaid lecturer on the subject of Metaphysics. Interestingly, as an unpaid lecturer, any payment he received was paid directly by any students who attended his lectures”. (Johnson)

After many years, “Kant was appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, where he remained somewhat reserved. In 1781, Kant published what can be argued as his most important work. “Critique of Pure Reason” swarmed to eight hundred pages, but unfortunately was somewhat unknown at the time. He followed this work with an essay in 1784 titled “Answer to the Question: What is enlightenment”. These works were “quickly followed by “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals” and “Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science” in 1785 and 1786. Kant continued to publish three additional works. In his final work, “Critique of Judgment”, Kant applied the Kantian system of Aesthetics and Teleology”. (Immanuel Kant)

In the same time period “during the year of 1786, King Frederick the Great died. His nephew Frederich Wilhelm II, was crowned and appointed Johann Wöllner as prime minister. Shortly after, Wöllner published an edict regulation anything that may threaten the Lutheran Church, specifically from Scholars such as Kant. At this time, Kant published the first of his four pieces titled “Pieces of Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason”. Upon and attempt to publish the...