Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant was born, lived and died in his hometown of Königsberg. He lived from 1724 to 1804. He studied at the local university and later returned to teach and tutor students. It was not until he met an English merchant named Joseph Green that Kant learned about David Hume and began to develop his ideas about morals and values. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is considered by many to be his greatest work. However, Kant's was best known for his moral code The Categorical Imperative. Immanuel Kant was a follower of Deontology, or ethics of duty. This means that for an act to be moral, it must be done out of duty. If you care about the end result of your actions, that is not a moral act. Only when your action is done in such a way that your only ...