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English
Etymology
From Kant + -ian.
Adjective
Kantian (comparative more Kantian, superlative most Kantian)
- (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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of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant
Noun
Kantian (plural Kantians)
- (philosophy) A person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant.
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person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant
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