ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant was an eighteenth-century German philosopher. He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Enlightenment. He was baptized as “Emanuel” but later changed his name to “Immanuel” after he learned Hebrew. He spent his entire life in and around his hometown, never traveling more than a hundred miles from Königsberg. In his youth, Kant was a solid, albeit unspectacular, student. He was raised in a pietist household that stressed intense religious devotion, personal humility, and a literal interpretation of the Bible. Consequently, Kant received a stern education-strict, punitive, and disciplinary-that favored Latin and religious instruction over mathematics and science.
