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East meets West: Kant and Mustafa Sabri Efendi (part 1)

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Did Kant Put the Bismillah on His Doctoral Dissertation?

Bismillah Arachmanarachim, the name of God, is there on the cover of Kant's own dissertation. Boxton traces like this, let's say, paper back and puts it into a kind of tradition where we see that a lot of PhD thesis or dissertations in that time do have this kind of typology on the top of their paper. This but this actually this kind of, let’s say, like fact is even more ironic when we have, like against the backdrop of Kant's very intolerant attitude towards other cultures.

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