ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant was not merely worthy of admiration for his mind and his comprehensive learning, he was not only a truly great and celebrated thinker and an academic teacher of distinction, man of outstanding character. The natural inclinations of his heart disposed him to benevolence and philanthropy and these inclinations were confirmed by the ethical principles of his philosophy, the products of his reason. His life and his teaching were one. In his relations with his fellow-men he was guided, not by his emotions, but by ethical principles, by the ordinances of duty. His whole mode of living was consistently regulated by reason, which governed over his inclinations and impulses. Kant gladly accorded to others the recognition they had earned, as in general he judged his fellow-men by their moral worth. Sycophancy and social timidity were unknown to him, he was protected from them by his consciousness of his own value; and fearlessly stood up for his convictions and principles.
