Definitions
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- adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
- n. A person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- 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.
from The 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. of or relating to Immanuel Kant or his philosophy
Etymologies
Examples
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I.e., those who imagined the Copenhagen narrative had been steeped in Kantian idealism.
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It is not our business here to oppose the application of the name Kantian to modernist philosophy.
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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
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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
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Schopenhauer can be called a Kantian, but he did not always agree with the details of Kant's arguments.
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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.
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The Louvre realized a kind of Kantian ideal for art as the object of disinterested contemplation.
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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.
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So I'm not arguing for some kind of Kantian categorical imperative.
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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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