Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or belonging to Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher (1724-1804), or to his system of philosophy.
- n. A follower of Kant; a Kantist.
Wiktionary
- adj. philosophy Of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
- n. philosophy A person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant.
- n. A follower of Kant; a Kantist.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to Immanuel Kant or his philosophy
Etymologies
- From Kant + -ian (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I.e., those who imagined the Copenhagen narrative had been steeped in Kantian idealism.”
“It is not our business here to oppose the application of the name Kantian to modernist philosophy.”
“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”
“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
“Schopenhauer can be called a Kantian, but he did not always agree with the details of Kant's arguments.”
“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.”
“The Louvre realized a kind of Kantian ideal for art as the object of disinterested contemplation.”
“On Anscombe's view modern theories such as Kantian ethics, Utilitarianism, and social contract theory are sorely inadequate for a variety of reasons, but one major worry is that they try to adopt the legalistic framework without the right background assumptions to ground it.”
“So I'm not arguing for some kind of Kantian categorical imperative.”
“In Kagan's view, Europeans today live in a "Kantian" postmodern paradise; they are at peace with one another and have constructed for themselves a happy way of life, based on negotiation, cooperation, rules — and impotence.”
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