Wilhelm von Humboldt vs. Immanuel Kant
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Wilhelm von Humboldt
1767 – 1835
Philosophy
Kingdom of Prussia
German new humanism
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the university was named after him and his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist.
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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events the…"
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Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804
Philosophy
Kingdom of Prussia
Enlightenment
German philosopher whose work on epistemology and ethics was transformative.
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"A spurious axiom of the first class is: Whatever is, is somewhere and sometime."
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