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On April 22, we celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential thinkers of the modern era and of Western philosophy. Immanuel Kant was born in East Prussia, in the city of Königsberg, rebuilt after World War II as the present-day Russian city of Kaliningrad. It was there that he developed his decisive principles, concepts and categories on reason, morality and politics, which have survived to this day with astonishing relevance, through observation, travel stories and literary reports that he read in abundance. Kant loved his city, which at the time had some 50,000 inhabitants and which he never left. He believed that there was no better place to get to know people and the world without having to travel. 'Kant, the Experiment of Freedom' presents this great German philosopher through a meticulous recreation. Meticulous and highly disciplined, at the age of 16 he began studying at the University of Königsberg where, after earning a doctorate in Philosophy and becoming a professor of Logic and Metaphysics, he taught critical thinking. Above all, he taught people to think for themselves and to reject any kind of dogma. “Thought must become the light that leads us out of the darkness,” says the character who embodies Kant in this documentary. Known above all for his 'Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Critique of Practical Reason', Kant formulated the famous “categorical imperative”. “In order to promote the good, the individual will must become the law of the general will of all men,” writes Kant. But it is his political theory that has become the most relevant. He has been considered a precursor of liberal democracy.