I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends -… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world. Kant thought things… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Unlike ordinary feelings, the feeling of reason and the feeling of respect do not have a sensible cause; their cause is reason… — Alix Cohen Copy Share Image
Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance,… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“On one hand, Kant thought science led to the conclusion that humans are elements in a vast machine operating by the laws… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Against Hume, Kant has found a more proper ground for humility: “True humility follows unavoidably from our sincere and exact comparison of… — Jeanine Grenberg Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
“[T]he whole talk about the absolute, is nothing but the cosmological proof incognito. This proof, in consequence of the case brought against… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
“Nor have the lives of great men been exciting except at a few great moments. Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something would be represented within me that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I would have said that Eichmann was profoundly, egregiously stupid, and for me stupidity is not the same as having a low… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Kant is sometimes considered to be an advocate of reason. Kant was in favor of science, it is argued. He emphasized the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“Kant does not seem to envisage that we are torn between two courses of action for moral reasons. He makes no provisions… — Jens Timmermann Copy Share Image
Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — Christine M. Korsgaard Copy Share Image
“Kant finds that the ‘virtue of the heart’ is central and emphasizes the role of the understanding and concepts at the expense… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
“Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other… — Andre Compte-Sponville Copy Share Image
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Kant also identified idle desires with wishing and active desire with willing, and he seemed to think that one of the problems… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed… — George Will Copy Share Image
“A good character may not make us happy, but it does make us worthy of happiness (XXV 1174). He also maintains that… — Timmermann Jens Copy Share Image
“Kant’s conception of dignity is indebted to Cicero and the Roman conception of dignitas, according to which dignity is an elevated position… — Oliver Sensen Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
![“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The novelist also carefully examines moral indifference and corruption which leads him to the questions: “What if reason takes the side of…” quote by George L. Kline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c87/george-l-kline-239544_dostoevsky_dostoyevsky-eloquently-proves-that-heart_53378.jpg)
![“[T]he whole talk about the absolute, is nothing but the cosmological proof incognito. This proof, in consequence of the case brought against it by Kant, deprived of all right and declared outlawed, dare no longer show itself in its true form, and therefore appears in all kinds of disguises - now…” quote by Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f6d/arthur-schopenhauer-226_absolute-matter_t-he-whole-talk-about-the-absolute-is-no_851288.jpg)
