'''Immanuel Kant''' (Apr. 22, 1724–1804) was a [[German]] ([[Prussian]]) [[philosopher]].<ref>Kant's birthplace was in then-[[Prussia]]'s Königsberg, now named Kaliningrad as part of [[Russia]], located near the Baltic Sea on its southeastern side.</ref> Kant was among the last of the major [[Enlightenment]] thinkers, and was one of the most influential intellectuals in world history. [[Karl Marx]] named Kant to be in effect the [[political]] [[philosopher]] of the [[French Revolution]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Kant |author=Garett Thomson |publisher=Albert Marenčin vydavateľstvo PT|location=Bratislava |year=2004 |page=93 |isbn=978-80889-12576 |url= |language=Slovak}}</ref>
Kant's rejection of traditional Christian supersessionism—a [[supersessionism]]—a longstanding mainstream view of antitypical fulfillment of Jewish messianic prophecies and the sacrificial system in Jesus Christ's atoning death on the cross—constituted a revival of 2nd-century Marcionite docetism which became a basis for Nazi Germany's "Positive Christianity" that propagated a "de-Judaized," Jesuitic interpretation of the New Testament devoid of its Hebraic foundation.<ref>Wojciech Kozyra (2022), [https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/files/pdf/eidos/2022-01/eidos_19_kozyra.pdf Kant, Anti-Supersessionism, and the Holocaust], pp. 80–96. Retrieved July 7, 2024.</ref>
==Early life==