Title

Immanuel Kant, German philosopher, 1812. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Immanuel Kant, German philosopher, 1812. Profile portrait surrounded by an Ouroboros, an ancient Egyptian-Greek symbolic serpent with its tail in its mouth devouring itself, representing the unity of the material and spiritual in the eternal circle of change and recreation. Kant (1724-1804) became professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Konigsberg, Germany in 1770. His most famous work was his 'Critique of Pure Reason', published in 1781, which provided a response to the empiricism of David Hume. Other works included the 'Critique of Practical Reason' (1788), and 'Critique of Judgment' (1790). Kant is regarded as one of the great European philosophers, and his ideas have considerably influenced later thinkers.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1812

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_159

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No

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Rights managed

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30,0Mb (2,3Mb) / 9,5in x 12,3in / 2848 x 3680 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany animal people male job man men German country Egypt symbol reptile snake guy occupation color colour profile Egyptian cycle change Greek Greece eternity location century profession philosophy concept mythology serpent 19th century mythical creature Ancient Greece Ancient Egyptian 18th century Ancient Greek Eighteenth Century nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive metaphysics mythical beast ouroboros philosopher TGN Immanuel Kant portrait Unknown Kant Immanuel portrait