EDGING IMMANUIL

(a sort. In 1724 - mind. In 1804)

German thinker XVIIIв., the ancestor of the German classical philosophy who have reconciled empiricism and rationalism, differentiated knowledge and belief areas. The professor of university in Kenigsberge, the foreign honorary member of the Petersburg Academy of sciences. The author of a cosmogonic hypothesis of an origin of solar system from the initial fog, proclaimed: ' Give me a matter, and I will construct of it the world '.

The Edging does not have other biography, than history of its doctrine, after all a life of the philosopher are the books written to it, and the most exciting events in it - its thoughts. All century Immanuil has lived the Edging in one city - Kenigsberge and never left limits of East Prussia. He did not search for glory, did not achieve the power, did not know neither business, nor love troubles.

It was not married at all. Its external life flew measuredly and monotonously, maybe, even more monotonously, than at people of such employment. That you will not tell about a life internal, about a life of its spirit. Here there were surprising fulfilments. Were born derznovennye ideas, krepli, entered single combat with others, gibli or reached manhood in struggle. The thought of the scientist wandered on continents directing for limits of the Earth getting into depth of human soul.

Immanuil the Edging in a life and creativity shows a rare example of the happy person. Possessing absolute freedom of spirit, he has subordinated the physical existence of one purpose, to one ideal - to searches of immortal true of life. And unless could consider itself unhappy, whether the thinker who with inspiration has opened a miracle of the heavenly and terrestrial world could complain of destinies any to disgrace: ' two things fill with eternally new both constantly increasing surprise and awe soul, than more often and more constantly the reflexion is engaged in them: the star sky is necessary me and the moral law in the person '.

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