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Left: Title-page of the first edition of Kant’s ‘Critique of Practical Reason,’ published in Riga, 1788


Right: Plaque near Kant’s Tomb. Outside Kliningrad Cathedral. The inscription in German and Russian, reads: “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and perseveringly my thinking engages itself with them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.”
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. . . Modern Russian Kaliningrad was once a great German city can be found in its Gothic cathedral, a typical example of German Baltic brick architecture, destroyed by the RAF in the in Second World War and carefully rebuilt in the 1990s. and at its north-east corner lies the tomb of the city’s most famous son, Immanuel Kant. Born in Konigsbege in 1724, the great philosopher never travelled more than ten miles from it, and never set foot in what is now Germany. On the plague near his tomb are the famous words from his ‘Critique of Practical Reason’ about the two things that inspired genuine and deep0ening awe in him, the more he considered them: “Der bestirnt Himmel uber mir. Und das moralische Gesetz in mir” -- “the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.” German philosophy - European philosophy -- is unthinkable without him ~ page 41
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