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1724 CE

Immanuel Kant

Philosopher of the Enlightenment

German philosopher whose Critique of Pure Reason and categorical imperative ('Act only according to that maxim by which you can also will that it should become a universal law') reshaped epistemology and ethics and remain foundational to Western philosophy.

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