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Kant was born on 22 April 1724 in Königsberg, now Kaliningrad. He never left his native city. By all accounts the furthest he ever travelled from the port was 60 miles or so when he became tutor to a household in a nearby town (Kuehn, 2001, p. 97). Immanuel was not himself a healthy child and survived his youth only with great good fortune. Throughout his long life Kant was understandably greatly preoccupied by his health and in his period of renown turned down offers of academic appointments outside Königsberg, often on the grounds of ill health.
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Williams, H. (2006). Immanuel Kant. In: Carver, T., Martin, J. (eds) Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501676_3
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