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  • Just the names-all the Greeks, of course, and Descartes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Leibniz, Vico, Eberhard, Herder, Schiller, Kant, Rilke, Keats, Schelling, and a hundred others, loaded all the cannon and made them ready to fire.†   (source)
  • She was part Immanuel Kant, part Prissy from Gone With the Wind.†   (source)
  • When Kant became a professor, he had to follow an old tradition and argue in public on a philosophical subject.†   (source)
  • We lingered by a few open doorways, catching random bits of lecture and arguments about Kant and Indonesian history and bonding equivalencies and scansion and King Lear.†   (source)
  • Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx.†   (source)
  • After Hume, the next great philosopher was the German, Immanuel Kant.†   (source)
  • Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in the East Prussian town of Konigsberg, the son of a master saddler.†   (source)
  • So you could say that Kant was the father of the UN idea.†   (source)
  • But you started by saying that Kant wanted to preserve the basis for Christian faith.†   (source)
  • The German poet Schiller developed Kant's thought further.†   (source)
  • Kant's philosophy states that it is inherent in us.†   (source)
  • Kant's ethics is therefore also called a good will ethic.†   (source)
  • After Kant and his cool intellectualism, it was as if German youth heaved a sigh of relief.†   (source)
  • Does that mean that Kant's philosophy is nevertheless more right than Plato's?†   (source)
  • Kant's synthesis now becomes the point of departure for another chain of reflections, or 'triad.'†   (source)
  • You could say that the golden rule says the same thing as Kant's universal law of morals.†   (source)
  • This was another case of human reason being unable to make a certain judgment, according to Kant.†   (source)
  • Kant called 'time' and 'space' our two 'forms of intuition.'†   (source)
  • Kant formulates this 'categorical imperative' in several ways.†   (source)
  • Kant made an important distinction between 'the thing in itself and 'the thing for me.'†   (source)
  • When Kant describes the law of morals, he is describing the human conscience.†   (source)
  • Kant agreed with the rationalists in some things and with the empiricists in others.†   (source)
  • According to Kant, the artist plays freely on his faculty of cognition.†   (source)
  • According to Kant, there are two elements that contribute to man's knowledge of the world.†   (source)
  • Kant made a considerable contribution here as well.†   (source)
  • I believe Kant said something to that effect.†   (source)
  • Neither can you say that Hume was wrong but Kant and Schelling were right.†   (source)
  • The establishment of such a league was for Kant a far-distant goal.†   (source)
  • Kant thought that both 'sensing' and 'reason' come into play in our conception of the world.†   (source)
  • Now, it might be worth noting that Kant was a Protestant.†   (source)
  • Now, you remember that Kant had talked about something he called 'das Ding an sich.'†   (source)
  • Kant claimed that it is not only mind which conforms to things.†   (source)
  • Then we shall take the main outline of Kant's philosophy so that we can get to Romanticism.†   (source)
  • The world spirit has developed—and progressed—from Plato to Kant.†   (source)
  • This was true of Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant.†   (source)
  • Kant called this the Copernican Revolution in the problem of human knowledge.†   (source)
  • Kant's ethics is therefore sometimes called duty ethics.†   (source)
  • This approach is not unlike Kant's ethics of duty.†   (source)
  • Kant had also left behind him a sharp distinction between the cognitive 'I' and nature 'in itself.'†   (source)
  • This is an important point, because Kant also said that everything obeys the law of causality.†   (source)
  • Kant believed there was no certain knowledge to be obtained on these questions.†   (source)
  • Kant formulates the moral law as a categorical imperative.†   (source)
  • With Kant, an era in the history of philosophy is therefore at an end.†   (source)
  • No. Kant's idea was that time and space belong to the human condition.†   (source)
  • Kant believed that there are clear limits to what we can know.†   (source)
  • Before we stop for today, I'll tell you about Kant's ethics.†   (source)
  • Indeed it is and Kant would certainly not disagree.†   (source)
  • So Kant's popularity didn't last very long?†   (source)
  • Let's sit here by the window while I tell you about Kant.†   (source)
  • I think I have told you what's most important about Kant.†   (source)
  • Kierkegaard, like Kant, drew attention first and foremost to human temperament.†   (source)
  • Did I say that Kant believed we had no freedom if we lived only as creatures of the senses?†   (source)
  • He didn't jump from Immanuel Kant to Bozeman, Montana.†   (source)
  • The point about mathematizing hypotheses was made by Kant.†   (source)
  • Kant's metaphysics thrilled Phaedrus at first, but later it dragged and he didn't know exactly why.†   (source)
  • Time is what Kant calls an "intuition," which the mind must supply as it receives the sense data.†   (source)
  • Kant says there are aspects of reality which are not supplied immediately by the senses.†   (source)
  • See our relation to it now, as Kant reveals it to us.†   (source)
  • To follow Kant one must also understand something about the Scottish philosopher David Hume.†   (source)
  • Kant felt he had done the same thing in metaphysics.†   (source)
  • He read Kant's esthetics with disappointment and then anger.†   (source)
  • Kant is trying to save scientific empiricism from the consequences of its own self-devouring logic.†   (source)
  • Are they synthetic a priori judgments, as Kant said?†   (source)
  • But, as Kant says, we are not that person.†   (source)
  • It seemed woven right into the whole fabric of Kant's world so deeply there was no escape from it.†   (source)
  • But the contradiction, or the tension between two modes of thought, was resolved in Kant's synthesis.†   (source)
  • But Kant went further than simply to establish that thes weighty questions should be left to the faith of the individual.†   (source)
  • In his point of departure Kant agrees with Hume and the empiricists that all our knowledge of the world comes from our sensations.†   (source)
  • When you put the red glasses on, we demonstrated that according to Kant there are two elements that contribute to our knowledge of the world.†   (source)
  • Kant's ideas get processed too, and his 'reason' becomes the subject of future generations' criticism.†   (source)
  • But the story doesn't end with Kant.†   (source)
  • But Kant pointed out that a child's reason is not fully developed until it has had some sensory material to work with.†   (source)
  • And even the law of causality—which Hume believed man could not experience—belongs to the mind, according to Kant.†   (source)
  • This was too tenuous a basis for Kant.†   (source)
  • Kant had always felt that the difference between right and wrong was a matter of reason, not sentiment.†   (source)
  • But that very thing which Hume says we cannot prove is what Kant makes into an attribute of human reason.†   (source)
  • By a 'practical postulate,' Kant meant something that had to be assumed for the sake of 'praxis,' or practice; that is to say, for man's morality.†   (source)
  • But it is important to note that Kant had a solid grounding in the philosophic tradition of the past.†   (source)
  • Kant was the first of the philosophers we have heard about so far to have taught philosophy at a university.†   (source)
  • In such great philosophical questions, Kant believed that reason operates beyond the limits of what we humans can comprehend.†   (source)
  • Only Kant shouldn't think that his 'truths' will remain on the banks of the river like immovable rocks.†   (source)
  • According to Kant, the law of morals is just as absolute and just as universal as the law of causality.†   (source)
  • Hume's skepticism with regard to what reason and the senses can tell us forced Kant to think through many of life's important questions again.†   (source)
  • The first significant system-builder was Descartes, and he was followed by Spinoza and Leibniz, Locke and Berkeley, Hume and Kant.†   (source)
  • As material creatures, we are wholly and fully at the mercy of causality's unbreakable law, says Kant.†   (source)
  • Kant's greatest contribution to philosophy is the dividing line he draws between things in themselves—das Ding n sich— and things as they appear to us.†   (source)
  • Many of the Romantics saw themselves as Kant's successors, since Kant had established that there was a limit to what we can know of 'das Ding an sich.'†   (source)
  • And that, Sophie, is precisely what Kant meant when he said that there are certain conditions governing the mind's operation which influence the way we experience the world.†   (source)
  • But as rational beings we have a part in what Kant calls das Ding an sich—that is, the world as it exists in itself, independent of our sensory impressions.†   (source)
  • You acted out of good will, and according to Kant, it is this good will which determines whether or not the action was morally right, not the consequences of the action.†   (source)
  • On this point Kant divides man into two parts in a way not dissimilar to the way Descartes claimed that man was a 'dual creature,' one with both a body and a mind.†   (source)
  • In such weighty questions as to the nature of reality, Kant showed that there will always be two contrasting viewpoints that are equally likely or unlikely, depending on what our reason tells us.†   (source)
  • Kant's point was that man's "practical reason" requires the nations to emerge from their wild state of nature which creates wars, and contract to keep the peace.†   (source)
  • But—and here Kant stretches his hand out to the rationalists—in our reason there are also decisive factors that determine how we perceive the world around us.†   (source)
  • According to Kant, everybody has 'practical reason,' that is, the intelligence that gives us the capacity to discern what is right or wrog in every case.†   (source)
  • And finally we could perhaps say that Kant succeeded in showing the way out of the impasse that philosophy had reached in the struggle between rationalism and empiricism.†   (source)
  • When he was out of sight, Sophie unfolded the piece of paper and read it: Dear Hilde, It's too bad that Alberto didn't also tell Sophie that Kant advocated the establishment of a "league of nations."†   (source)
  • You remember that philosophers before Kant had discussed the really 'big' questions—for instance, whether man has an immortal soul, whether there is a God, whether nature consists of tiny indivisible particles, and whether the universe is finite or infinite.†   (source)
  • (Lit: L. Lacour, "Les Origines du feminisme contem-porain," 1900) Kant ...the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me...It was close to midnight before Major Albert Knag called home to wish Hilde a happy birthday†   (source)
  • And who did Kant agree with?†   (source)
  • Kant also formulates the 'categorical imperative' in this way: Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.†   (source)
  • So Kant says.†   (source)
  • And Kant was that kind?†   (source)
  • That made Kant uneasy.†   (source)
  • Kant was both.†   (source)
  • What did Kant think?†   (source)
  • And what did Kant think?†   (source)
  • Not according to Kant.†   (source)
  • Finally, at the age of twenty-five, he abandoned his wife and child and after many hardships came to Berlin where he joined a group of philosophers, read Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant, and began to write philosophical books, it is astonishing how he was able to gobble up complicated philosophical treatises with such ease.†   (source)
  • A fragment of memory is preserved of him sitting in a room at three and four in the morning with Immanuel Kant's famous Critique of Pure Reason, studying it as a chess player studies the openings of the tournament masters, trying to test the line of development against his own judgment and skill, looking for contradictions and incongruities.†   (source)
  • The bulk of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is concerned with how this a priori knowledge is acquired and how it is employed.†   (source)
  • Now stop and apply some of the concepts Kant has put forth to this strange machine, this creation that's been bearing us along through time and space.†   (source)
  • Kant called his thesis that our a priori thoughts are independent of sense data and screen what we see a "Copernican revolution."†   (source)
  • For this eighteenth-century German philosopher he feels a respect that rises not out of agreement but out of appreciation for Kant's formidable logical fortification of his position.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus is a bizarre person when contrasted to the twentieth-century Midwestern Americans who surround him, but when he is seen studying Kant he is less strange.†   (source)
  • Kant is always superbly methodical, persistent, regular and meticulous as he scales that great snowy mountain of thought concerning what is in the mind and what is outside the mind.†   (source)
  • Kant would have appreciated it.†   (source)
  • As a result of this difference, Kant skirts right around the abyss of solipsism that Hume's path leads to and proceeds on an entirely new and different path of his own.†   (source)
  • Kant and his millions of followers have maintained that as a result of this inversion you get a much more satisfying understanding of how we know things.†   (source)
  • He wished Kant were alive.†   (source)
  • Thus it was Hume, Kant said, who "aroused me from my dogmatic slumbers" and caused him to write what is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophical treatises ever written, the Critique of Pure Reason, often the subject of an entire University course.†   (source)
  • This Kant would not do.†   (source)
  • It is, for modern climbers, one of the highest peaks of all, and I want now to magnify this picture of Kant and show a little about how he thought and how Phaedrus thought about him in order to give a clearer picture of what the high country of the mind is like and also to prepare the way for an understanding of Phaedrus' thoughts.†   (source)
  • This refutation of scientific materialism, however, seemed to put him in the camp of philosophic idealism...Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Bradley, Bosanquet...good company all, logical to the last comma, but so difficult to justify in "common sense" language they seemed a burden to him in his defense of Quality rather than an aid.†   (source)
  • Kant comes to our rescue.†   (source)
  • Plotinus begat St. Augustine...Kant begat Hegel.†   (source)
  • He will not let them read, lest some one find the rag-quilt of his takings from Zeno to Immanuel Kant.†   (source)
  • All that he had read in books, all the tranquil wisdom he had professed so glibly in his philosophy course, and the great names of Plato and Plotinus, of Spinoza and Immanuel Kant, of Hegel and Descartes, left him now, under the mastering surge of his wild Celtic superstition.†   (source)
  • You're a bold man to say that of anything stated by Immanuel Kant,' retorted Macalister.†   (source)
  • Kant thought things not because they were true, but because he was Kant.'†   (source)
  • He was a student of Kant and judged everything from the standpoint of pure reason.†   (source)
  • Neither did Kant when he devised the Cat egorical Imperative.†   (source)
  • If one classed him at all it would be as the countryman of Hegel and Kant, as the idealist, inclined to be dreamy, whose Imperialism was the Imperialism of the air.†   (source)
  • Therefore when a man comes along who can and does reason, and who, applying the Kantian test to his conduct, can truly say to us, If everybody did as I do, the world would be compelled to reform itself industrially, and abolish slavery and squalor, which exist only because everybody does as you do, let us honor that man and seriously consider the advisability of following his example.†   (source)
  • And, sometimes, even chapel lures That conscious tolerance of yours, That broad and beaming view of truth (Including Kant and General Booth...)†   (source)
  • So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight.†   (source)
  • Of late in Moscow and in the country, since he had become convinced that he would find no solution in the materialists, he had read and re-read thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life.†   (source)
  • The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.†   (source)
  • It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy—about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.   (source)
  • Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
    Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,
    Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,
    And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having
    studied long,
    I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,
    See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets see,
    Yet underneath Socrates clearly see, and underneath Christ the divine I see,
    The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
    Of the well-married husband and wife, of children and parents,
    Of city for city and land for land.†   (source)
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