# Immanuel Kant

- Id: `immanuel_kant`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/kant/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `research_in_progress`
- Content checksum: `2ec307714e8ba396711b7fa0ebc12e9b31b76162da50dd254ded0994baf36c08`

## Summary

Kant asks what makes knowledge, moral obligation and aesthetic judgement possible. His critical philosophy gives reason real authority while drawing strict boundaries around what it can know, command and hope.

## Overview

Kant died in Königsberg on 12 February 1804.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1724-1804",
    "era": "Early modern period",
    "distance": "222–302 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 80
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Critical philosophy and Enlightenment thought",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Critical philosophy and Enlightenment thought"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1804,
    "display": "1804 CE",
    "reason": "Kant died in Königsberg on 12 February 1804."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 0,
    "passages": 0,
    "languages": [],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Königsberg",
        "period": "1724-1804",
        "description": "Birthplace, university career, principal place of writing and place of death. The modern coordinates locate Kaliningrad and do not reconstruct an exact historical address.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/"
    }
]
```