New Delhi, May 10 -- Immanuel Kant, born in Konigsberg, Prussia, in 1724, became one of the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment. He spent most of his life in Konigsberg, teaching and writing on reason, ethics, human freedom, knowledge, judgement, and political order. His major works include Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgment, which shaped modern philosophy and later debates on morality, law, autonomy, and human progress.

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."- Immanuel Kant

This quote comes from Kant's 1784 essay Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose. A more literal translation is: "Out of timber as crooked as that from whic...