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Immanuel Kant "Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world" Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 is regarded as the last major philosopher of the early modern period and one of history's most influential thinkers. Born in Germany, he spent much of his youth as a solid but not spectacular student, living more off playing pool than his writings. He was of the rather curious conviction that a person did not have a firm direction in life until their thirty-ninth year. He lived a very regulated life: the walk he took at three-thirty every afternoon was so punctual that local housewives would set their clocks by him. In 1781, he released the massive "Critique of Pure Reason", arguably the most significant single book in modern philosophy.   |
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