"Exciting" is not the word you would use to describe the life of Immanuel Kant. He was born in Königsberg (modern-day Kaliningrad, Russia) and never left the city limits. He had a fairly long life (reaching 79 years old) but never married and was a lifelong academic, hardly the stuff of Hollywood!
Paradoxically, he is one of history's great philosophers and is integral to the Western canon. Apparently, where he could be mundane in his actions, he could be revolutionary in his thought.
Kant's day was structured as follows:
His servant would wake him up at 5 a.m. Kant took pride in the fact that he never woke up even half an hour late, though he found waking up so early very difficult (and there is some evidence that he slept in a little during his younger years).
He would then drink 1-2 cups of weak tea and smoke his pipe. He considered this early morning smoking time an integral period of meditation and had a rule that he would never smoke more than one pipe a day, although the size of the bowl in his pipe would increase dramatically.
He then prepared his books and lecture materials until 7 a.m. From 7-11 a.m., he would lecture, after which he would return to working on his writings until lunch.
He would have a fairly large lunch replete with multiple dishes, wine, cheese, and a few desserts, all while conversing with his friends.
After lunch came Kant's 3 p.m. walk. According to legend, the citizens of Königsberg set their watches to his walk, which was only disrupted twice in his life: once when Rousseau's new book was released and once when there was news of the recent French Revolution.
After his walk, he would meet up with his friend Joseph Green, and they would spend time together until about 7 p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on weekends, after which Kant returned home.
His evening routine consisted of some light reading and work before he would go to bed at precisely 10 p.m.
Sources:
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/1963-immanuel-kant-the-errrr-walker
https://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/2007/08/immanuel-kant.html
https://meaningring.com/2015/04/17/daily-rituals-kant-by-mason-currey/
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