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The philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason that since morality lies ultimately in a person's disposition, and as disposition is concerned with the adoption of universal principles, or as he called them: " maxims ", that every human being is guilty of, in one sense, an infinite amount of violations of the law, and so consequently an infinite punishment is not unjustified.
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He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).
In remote Königsberg philosopher Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ) tried to reconcile rationalism and religious belief, individual freedom, and political authority.
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The philosopher Immanuel Kant's treatment of human knowledge had a special role for geometry.
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The Prodigal Son: a dramatic renarration () written by Norwegian author and philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe ( 1899 – 1990 ) in 1951, is a dramatized reproduction of the circumstances around the Jesus figure, named Immanuel in Zapffe's play.
Immanuel Kant contrasted experience with reason: " Nothing, indeed, can be more harmful or more unworthy of the philosopher, than the vulgar appeal to so-called experience.
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This view which can be seen as a view of language going back to Kant and Descartes often understands language to be largely innate, for example as in Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar or American philosopher Jerry Fodor ’ s extreme innatist theory.
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Political philosopher John Rawls draws on the utilitarian insights of Bentham and Mill, the social contract ideas of John Locke, and the categorical imperative ideas of Kant.
The philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt called for an anthropology that would synthesize Kant and Herder's ideas.
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Zoticus, a Neoplatonist philosopher of the 3rd century AD, wrote an epic poem based on Plato's account of Atlantis.
The Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo in the early 1st century AD wrote about the destruction of Atlantis in his On the Eternity of the World, xxvi.
Whatever the precise links, the associate justice wrote opinions that mirrored the arguments of the Oxford philosopher of " positive liberty " and the sociologically inclined Midwestern professors.
As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträtsel ( 1895 – 1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901 ), the genesis for the term " world riddle " ( Welträtsel ); and Freedom in Science and Teaching to support teaching evolution.
In the 6th century, the Neoplatonist philosopher Simplicius, who was persecuted for his pagan beliefs during the reign of Justinian, wrote an extant commentary on the Enchiridion.
Being unwittingly on his deathbed, the philosopher wrote his last letter to his absent host and friend Lord Arundel:
Galen saw himself as both a physician and a philosopher, as he wrote in his treatise entitled That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher.
This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.
Reflecting his immense influence on 20th-century thought, Hilda Neatby, in 1953, wrote " Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later middle ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher.
During the reign of Nero from 54 to 68, the Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote a number of dialogues and letters on such moral themes as mercy and generosity.
In early 12th-century al-Andalus, the Arabian philosopher, Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ), wrote discussions on materialism in his philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan ( Philosophus Autodidactus ), while vaguely foreshadowing the idea of a historical materialism.
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Numenius, a Greek philosopher who was a native of Apamea, in Syria, wrote during the latter half of the 2nd century AD.
" Adams wrote of Cicero that " as all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united in the same character, his authority should have great weight.
According to German philosopher Karl Jaspers, when Spinoza wrote " Deus sive Natura " ( God or Nature ) Spinoza did not mean to say that God and Nature are interchangeable terms, but rather that God's transcendence was attested by his infinitely many attributes, and that two attributes known by humans, namely Thought and Extension, signified God's immanence.
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Whewell wrote of " an increasing proclivity of separation and dismemberment " in the sciences ; while highly specific terms proliferated — chemist, mathematician, naturalist — the broad term " philosopher " was no longer satisfactory to group together those who pursued science, without the caveats of " natural " or " experimental " philosopher.
The third-century philosopher Maximus of Tyre wrote that Sappho was " small and dark " and that her relationships to her female friends were similar to those of Socrates:
English philosopher, sociologist, biologist and writer Herbert Spencer wrote of the many aspects of the character of the state as opposed to the character of man in his book The Man Versus The State.
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