Kant: A Biography

Kant's house (Bildarchiv preussischer Kulturbesitz) ...

The castle and Kant's house ...

Silent Years 235 At the beginning of the seventies, Kant was far from being clear on the significance and implications of the do ...

236 Kant: A Biography "concerning a system, which I had in my head, but which / could only ac¬ complish during the period from 1 ...

Silent Years 237 philosophy, finding natural philosophy to be the genuine article and arti¬ ficial philosophy a "waste of time," ...

6 "All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics (1780-1784) T HE EIGHTIES and early nineties were the years during which Kant wrote most ...

"All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics 239 is the most careful observer of his evacuations, and he ruminates often at the most in¬ ...

240 Kant: A Biography a particularly amusing situation."^5 Philosophy, on the other hand, deals — at least according to Kant — w ...

"All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics 241 that Green had "undoubtedly a decisive influence on his [Kant's] heart and character."^ ...

242 Kant: A Biography he does not answer the question directly. He seems to be primarily inter¬ ested not in the general questio ...

"All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics 243 view the world as spatial and temporal, things in space and time, or "the appearances," ...

244 Kant: A Biography Though they make experiential knowledge possible, they might also make other kinds of knowledge possible. ...

"All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics 245 peculiar character that it [the principle] makes possible the very experi¬ ence which i ...

246 Kant: A Biography about God must be unsound. They cannot establish knowledge in any sense. If they are taken as establishing ...

"All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics 247 thought or concept. It is the "vehicle" of all concepts (A 342=6399). Kant also acknowl ...

248 Kant: A Biography the antithesis, and therefore ultimately neither. Reason cannot demonstrate what it claims to know. Tradit ...

"All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics 249 The other two kinds of proofs, namely, the cosmological proof and the physico-theologic ...

250 Kant: A Biography for Kant restricted to God, freedom, and immortality, do not afford any kind of knowledge beyond that whic ...

"All-Crushing" Critic of Metaphysics 251 He was eager to hear Mendelssohn's judgment about it. When he heard from Herz that Mend ...

252 Kant: A Biography by opposing to each other two genera of sense: the inner and outer one, or by wanting to merge or transfor ...