康德

Kāngdé
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher of the Enlightenment, author of Critique of Pure Reason

Examples

Kāngdé shì Déguó gǔdiǎn zhéxué de diànjīrén.
Kant is the founder of German classical philosophy.
Tā tíchū le ' juéduì mìnglìng ' de dàodé lǐlùn.
He proposed the moral theory of the 'categorical imperative'.

Tips

culture
His three critiques — 纯粹理性批判 (Pure Reason), 实践理性批判 (Practical Reason), 判断力批判 (Judgment) — anchor most Chinese philosophy curricula. Famously said to have walked so punctually that Königsberg residents set their clocks by him.

Stroke Order

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