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  • It shows us how deeply seated is the ethical emotion in man; it shows us that the religion of every man at his best moments is such as Immanuel Kant described and realised in his calm and beautiful life -- a religion based on the sublime realities of the moral law.

    Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

  • In the 18th century, Immanuel Kant declared space and time were properties of the mind.

    Robert Lanza, M.D.: Could This Theory Provide A Glimpse Of Our Ultimate Destiny? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011

  • The canonical modern philosopher Immanuel Kant would agree with Plato and Aristotle that humans, though endowed with reason, regularly act irrationally.

    We Are More Bacchus Than Apollo 2011

  • When Immanuel Kant wrote that aesthetics involved 'disinterested pleasure' he bred what is a mistaken suspicion for beautiful form on two counts -- pleasure and interest.

    ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

  • It is what Immanuel Kant would call the thing in itself, as opposed to denatured and deracinated by-products of the barnyard such as chicken tenders.

    What Do You Mean, You Don't Sell Pigs Feet? Con Chapman 2011

  • Long before Immanuel Kant dreamed of perpetual peace during the Enlightenment, thinkers in the Dark and Middle Ages such as Thomas à Becket and Pope Boniface VIII hoped that the Catholic Church would grow into a multinational institution that could regulate the relations among Europe's crowned heads while imposing human rights standards on feuding nobles.

    Europe's Less Than Perfect Union Walter Russell Mead 2011

  • David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and other European philosophers denigrated the intelligence of people of color.

    Derrick Darby: Hall of Fame Disses Conscious Rap Derrick Darby 2011

  • In April a German government-sponsored exhibition about the Enlightenment opened with a dumbed-down collection of artworks and objects such as Immanuel Kant's shoes minus explanation of the ferment of the era.

    Throwing Out the Marxist Baggage 2011

  • David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and other European philosophers denigrated the intelligence of people of color.

    Derrick Darby: Hall of Fame Disses Conscious Rap Derrick Darby 2011

  • Sarah Palin is rarely seen in the Alaskan woods without her dog-eared copy of Immanuel Kant's "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics."

    Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents Joe Queenan 2011

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  • See Kant.

    October 10, 2010