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| Immanuel Kant |
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The access to Kant is especially difficult, more difficult than
with any other philosopher. Not necessarily because of the complicatedness
and heaviness of his representation, but rather for the reason that
his philosophy rigorously contradicts the common way of thinking,
because it calls upon an entire reversal of thinking and life in
general, without thereby bringing the new, which it introduces,
to a complete conclusion. However Kant could not have engaged in
the intellectual in such a deep manner, could not have excited the
human being as a human being, if the simple truths did not speak
from his work, which do redesign our whole existence.
In the same year (1781), in which Lessing, the great poet of the
German enlightenment and at the same time their most important critic,
passed away, Kants first major work was published, ' the criticism
of the pure reason' along with which the European movement of the
enlightenment was brought to completion and at the same time was
lifted to a higher level.
Herder, who studied in Königsberg (Kants home town, which he had
never left) during Kants first year as a university teacher, praises
Kants advantages as a lecturer in a letter: "He, in his blooming
years, had the cheerful liveliness of a boy, his open, built for
the thinking forehead was a home of indestructible cheer and joy..."
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