Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in Königsberg, a provincial capital on the Baltic Sea (today Kaliningrad). He was raised in a modest artisanal family and educated in a pietistic Lutheran tradition that stressed duty and virtue. Young Kant was intellectually precocious. He studied at the University of Königsberg (never venturing more than a hundred miles from his birthplace his entire life). After some years as a private tutor, he became a professor at Königsberg and taught there for four decades.

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