ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) spent his whole life in the German city of Königsberg – now the Russian city of Kaliningrad. He worked at the university, which was recently renamed the Immanuel Kant State University of Russia in his honour. He has had, and continues to have, a huge influence on philosophy, in both the analytic and the continental traditions. As far as metaphysics is concerned, Kant’s two major works are the hefty Critique of Pure Reason (1781) – which Kant (1783: 8) himself describes as ‘dry, obscure, opposed to all ordinary notions, and moreover long-winded’ – and the rather lighter-weight Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783).
