Immanuel Kant - born Emanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics . He is called by many, the "father of modern philosophy. His best known work is the Critique of Pure Reason, is often cited as the most significant writings of metaphysics and epistemology in modern philosophy More