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Goethe chose the title of his essay so as to refute Kant by its very wording. Against this, Goethe puts his Anschauende Urteilskraft. 2 'Der Alte vom Königsberge' a play upon words with the name of Kant's native town, Königsberg. 3 It is naturally to be expected that new light will also be thrown on the various realms of knowledge as such dealt with in these pages.
Kant's "Critique," op. cit. p. 16. By your permission I lay before you, in a series of letters, the results of my researches upon beauty and art. I am keenly sensible of the importance as well as of the charm and dignity of this undertaking. I shall treat a subject which is closely connected with the better portion of our happiness and not far removed from the moral nobility of human nature.
Aware of this, I had on the day before he entered upon his duties, written down for the new servant upon a sheet of paper the entire routine of Kant's daily life, down to the minutest and most trivial circumstances; all which he mastered with the greatest rapidity.
Precisely at five minutes before five o'clock, winter or summer, Lampe, Kant's servant, who had formerly served in the army, marched into his master's room with the air of a sentinel on duty, and cried aloud in a military tone, 'Mr.
The central fact of the intellectual world is experience. This experience seems to be given us in the forms of time and space and cause. These are merely forms of the mind's own activity. It is not possible for us to know 'the thing in itself, the Ding an sich in Kant's phrase, which is the external factor in any sensation or perception.
But the venture turn'd out a lucky one, and there was no emigration. Carlyle's work in the sphere of literature as he commenced and carried it out, is the same in one or two leading respects that Immanuel Kant's was in speculative philosophy.
If you can't make any assured theoretical statement about the nature of the self, you can allow demands, which you regard as ethical and primary, to dictate your ultimate beliefs. It cannot be denied that Kant's argument savors of the popular notion that the virtuous must be rewarded.
But this was not within the field of Kant's inquiry. What he wished to know was simply the exact stage in the whole course of her development which the Earth at present occupies. Is she still in her infancy, for example, or in a stage corresponding to middle age, or in a stage approaching to superannuation?
In particular, I have been told by Kant's old friends, that for the space of more than thirty years, during which he had been in the habit of reading the newspaper published by Hartung, Lampe delivered it with the same identical blunder on every day of publication. 'Mr. Professor, here is Hartmann's journal. Upon which Kant would reply 'Eh! what? What's that you say? Hartmann's journal?
They have not been consistent; they have played fast and loose with the enemy; and Bergson alone has been radical. To show what I mean by this, let me contrast his procedure with that of some of the transcendentalist philosophers whom I have lately mentioned. Coming after Kant, these pique themselves on being 'critical, on building in fact upon Kant's 'critique' of pure reason.
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