Definition of Kantian in English:
Kantian
adjective
Relating to or consistent with the works of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
‘a sophisticated Kantian account of praise and blame’- ‘The Kantian concern with the beautiful was eclipsed by his notion of the sublime.’
- ‘But he doesn't spell out his theory in dull, prosaic, Kantian or Cartesian fashion.’
- ‘Kantian moral philosophers will find much to disagree with, but the book raises important puzzles for Kantian moral theory.’
- ‘Freud struggled to reconcile his notion of unconscious time with his Kantian and Newtonian view of the psyche.’
- ‘It's an idea that has to do with language being actual, being temporal and spatial, to be Kantian about it.’
- ‘The first important school of thought to arise out of Kantian philosophy was the subjective idealism of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.’
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noun
A person who supports the works of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
‘he considered himself at this time to be a Kantian’- ‘An ardent Kantian, Muller believed that he had found the physiological equivalent of Kant's categories of thought.’
- ‘I am a new Kantian in regards to my epistemology.’
- ‘Other developments in mathematics also proved problematic for Kantians.’
- ‘They had already inherited those problems in their traditional forms along with the basic philosophical stances of the Kantians, Hegelians, and positivists.’
- ‘Modern Kantians usually concede that Kant was too optimistic about our ability always to see the right thing to do.’
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