Kantian

comparative more Kantian · superlative most Kantian · alternative Kantean

1. human sciencesOf, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).

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

   1964 Sep, James M. Edie, “Transcendental Phenomenology and Existentialism”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 25, number 1, page 59

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   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.

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

   It aimed to pacify intra-European relations through exchange and economic cooperation. The framework was therefore Kantian: it was based on the principle of peace through exchange.

   2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, quoting Zaki Laïdi, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: Kantianist, Kantist

plural Kantians · alternative Kantean

1. human sciencesA person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant.