A boring man
is famous. You've probably heard of him. And you know some of his ideas, such as the categorical imperative
, or have at some point started the Critique of Pure Reason
(if you're like me, you never finish it). But what do you know about his biography? I may not be able to complete a Critique of Pure Reason
, but I did read Manfred Kuehn's Kant: A Biography
in the winter of 2002. From that I learned one surprising fact:
Immanuel Kant in his personal beliefs was not an orthodox Christian, if he had religious sentiment at all.
This surprised me because I had read elsewhere in passing that Kant was a Pietistic Lutheran. Ultimately whether Kant was religious or not was not a major issue for me, but I did update my personal factual database. Fast forward six years to 2008. I was ...
