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Can you please specify how life is different? I feel lucky not to have noticed.

• jessaustin 8y ago
  No one alive now would have noticed. We are comparing the life expectancies of the present day to those of 1762. At 38, Kant would have already outlived most of his contemporaries.
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  • kens 8y ago
    People in the 1700's didn't all die in their thirties. Kant lived to 79. As for contemporary philosophers, Leibniz lived to 70, Hume to 65, Rousseau to 66, Adam Smith 67 and Voltaire 83. Average life expectancy was pulled down by infant mortality, but plenty of people lived long lives.
    • jessaustin 8y ago
      Sure, but their population pyramid was a lot more pyramidal than ours is.