On April 22, a stamp dedicated to the 300th Birth Anniversary of philosopher Immanuel Kant was put into postal circulation

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, the originator of transcendental idealism.

He was born on April 22, 1724, in Königsberg. He studied at the peripheral school of St George's Hospice. In the summer of 1732, he transferred to the Friedrichs-Collegium Gymnasium, which he finished in 1740. From 1740, he was a student of the University of Königsberg, where in later years he taught as a Privat-dozent (from 1755) and a Professor (from 1770); he lectured not only on philosophy, but also on mathematics, physics, geography, and anthropology. In 1786 and 1788, he was elected the rector of the university.

Immanuel Kant's philosophical beliefs are set out in his works The Critique of Pure Reason (1781, 1787), The Critique of Practical Reason (1788), The Critique of Judgement (1790) and several other writings.

All the chief problems of I. Kant's critical philosophy come down to the question: "What is a human?" which comprises more partial questions: "What can I know?", "What should I do?", and "What can I hope for?". The first question is answered by theoretical philosophy, the second and third questions get answers from practical philosophy, which is tackled in his writings Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Religion Within the Bounds of Pure Reason (1793), The Metaphysics of Morals (1797), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798).

Immanuel Kant's philosophy had an enormous impact on the whole subsequent development of European thought. The range of problems of his ideas remained topical for most philosophical trends of the 20th century: phenomenology, existentialism, analytical philosophy and others.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of Immanuel Kant by painter A. Zhuravlev from the collection of the Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and Kaliningrad, as well as a maxi-card.


Painter: A. Zhuravlev; Design: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 70 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×50 mm, sheet size: 178×184 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 12 (4×3) stamps.
Quantity: 96 thousand stamps (8 thousand sheets).

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