Kantian

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From Kant +‎ -ian.

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Kantian (comparative more Kantian, superlative most Kantian)

  1. (philosophy) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
    • 1964 Sep, James M. Edie, “Transcendental Phenomenology and Existentialism”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 25, number 1, page 59:
      Gurwitsch's notion of the perceptual noema as a completely idealized phenomenon is more Kantian than Husserlian.
    • 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:
      Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
    • 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, quoting Zaki Laïdi, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      It aimed to pacify intra-European relations through exchange and economic cooperation. The framework was therefore Kantian: it was based on the principle of peace through exchange.

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Kantian (plural Kantians)

  1. (philosophy) A person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant.

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