Kant, Immanuel

German philosopher. Critique of Pure Reason. In his Universal Natural History and Theory of the Universe he antic i¬ pated the discovery of Uranus. Another of his important works is the Critique of Practical Reason. It was his aim to determine the laws and limits of human reason and of the human in¬ tellect in relation to the objects of human knowledge. Born, 1724; died, 1804.