Kantian

English

Alternative forms

• Kantean

Etymology

From Kant +‎ -ian

Adjective

Kantian (comparative more Kantian, superlative most Kantian)

1. (philosophy) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
   • 1964, James M. Edie, "Transcendental Phenomenology and Existentialism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 25, no. 1 (Sep.), p. 59,

     Gurwitsch's notion of the perceptual noema as a completely idealized phenomenon is more Kantian than Husserlian.

   • 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema‎^[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:

     Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

Synonyms

• Kantianist
• Kantist (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• Fichtean
• Hegelian
• Schellingian

Derived terms

• Kantianism
• Neo-Kantian

Translations

of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant

• Catalan: kantià (ca)
• Czech: kantovský
• German: kantianisch (de)

• Hungarian: kantiánus
• Portuguese: kantiano (pt)
• Spanish: kantiano (es)

Noun

Kantian (plural Kantians)

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

Translations

person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant

• Catalan: kantià (ca) m
• Czech: kantovec m

• Portuguese: kantiano (pt) m
• Spanish: kantiano (es) m

Anagrams

• Tankian, katanin