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Hello, in 1781, Emmanuel Kant shared his insight into how we understand the world around us,

as revolutionary in his view, as when Copernicus realized it's not the earth

that's at the centre of the heavens, but the sun.

Kant argued that we can never know the world as it is,

but only through the structures in our own minds, which shape our understanding.

And this idea, but the world depends on us, as we in one of Kant's greatest contributions

to philosophy and still resonates.

With me to discuss Kant's Copernican Revolution,

are Fiona Hughes, Senior Electro-Infolucopy at the University of Essex,

annual Goams, Associate Professor and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy,

Trinity College Oxford, and John Cullenen, Senior Electro-Infolucopy,

at King's College London. John Cullenen, what do we need to know about Kant's life

between his birth in 1724, and the day time I mentioned 1781?

Well, Kant was born in Königsberg in 1734, as you said,

which is now Klinengrad on the Baltic coast.

He was raised in a modest family and went to the local school and famously lived in Königsberg

and worked there around there for the entirety of his life and never

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