Quotes by Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804
Kant was a German philosopher who taught for many years at the University of Koenigsberg. He made pivotal contributions to the study of ethics and epistemology and was a leading figure in the German Enlightenment.
Bio
See the Liberty Matters online discussion on Limited Government, Unlimited Liberalism. Or, How Benjamin Constant was a Kantian After All
For more information see the Biographical Essay.
Liberty
Kant on the natural right to seek happiness in one’s own way (1791)
War & Peace
Kant believed that citizens must give their free consent via their representatives to every separate declaration of war (1790)