Immanuel Kant on enlightenment
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) approaches enlightenment within German idealism. The mind’s a priori forms of intuition (space, time) and categories structure experience; we know appearances, not things in themselves. Synthetic a priori judgments make mathematics and pure natural science possible within those bounds. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets enlightenment most directly—useful for searches such as “immanuel kant quotes on enlightenment.”
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