Definition of Kantian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to Immanuel Kant or his philosophy.

Partainyms: Kant
Derivative terms: Kant

Definition of Kantian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant.

2. n. A follower of Kant; a Kantist.

Definition of Kantian

1. Adjective. (philosophy) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of (w Immanuel Kant) (1724-1804). ¹

2. Noun. (philosophy) A person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kantian

Kannada-speaking
Kanner's syndrome
Kano
Kanpur
Kansa
Kansan
Kansans
Kansas
Kansas City
Kansas River
Kansu
Kant
Kantean
Kanteans
Kantei
Kantian
Kantianism
Kantianist
Kantianists
Kantians
Kantism
Kantist
Kantists
Kantrex
Kanuri
Kaochlor
Kaohsiung
Kaopectate
Kapampangan
Kapampangans

Literary usage of Kantian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1886)
"THE kantian PHILOSOPHY AS DOCTRINE OF DEVELOPMENT. /. The kantian Ground-Problems. The fact that we conceive a common world of sense was ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Krug's Philosophische» Lexikon contains also the kantian vocabulary, but without the modern effort at a philological treatment of the kantian usage. ..."

3. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"Transition to the Post-kantian Philosophy. ... The majority of the writers, however, of the kantian school, confine them- ..."

4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1883)
"kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution; a Critical Study. ... hardly borne this indispensable rule of fruitful kantian criticism sufficiently iu mind, ..."

5. Outlines of the History of Ethics for English Readers by Henry Sidgwick (1892)
"But though, viewed on its metaphysical side, the German influence obscurely communicated to the English mind through Coleridge was rather post-kantian than ..."

6. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"(3) There appears in the kantian system a wholly new feature which is ... The post-kantian philosophies deal with the three points just mentioned in the ..."

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