“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct… — Immanuel Kant 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
We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Kant ate but once a day, and drank no beer. Of this liquor, (I mean the strong black beer,) he was, indeed,… — Thomas de Quincey 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
“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
“The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts’.… — Martin Heidegger 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
“It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identical and therefore an analytic… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“In order to discredit faith and seduce believers, Kant does not hesitate to appeal to pride or vanity: whoever does not rely… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone he goes so far as to claim that conscientious moral judgement cannot err. The… — Jens Timmermann Copy Share Image
“In the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant makes it quite clear that sympathetic feelings are often welcome, amiable, desirable, beautiful. They can… — Jens Timmermann Copy Share Image
“will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be only empirical and thus belong to anthropology’.” — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
“[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
“There is danger in speaking so generally about "liberalism," a danger that has often plagued feminist debates. "Liberalism" is not a single… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with those *a priori* concepts to which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“Especially to be avoided is approaching Kant's life in a spirit of hero worship or hagiography -- as though our interest in… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
