Ralph Waldo Emerson was the American writer most influenced by the ideas in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Option C is correct.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, as well as poet who directed the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was regarded as a champion of individualism and a critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
He was influenced by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. He was one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics have had a major impact on almost every philosophical movement that took place after him.