Great Books

Summary and Review

“Kant’s teaching produces a fundamental change so great that it may be regarded as an intellectual rebirth. … The mind undergoes a complete undeceiving, and forthwith looks at all things in another light… he who has not mastered the Kantian philosophy is in a state of innocence; in the grasp of that natural and childish realism in which we are all born, and which fits us for everything possible, with the single exception of philosophy.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I, Preface to the Second Ed, 1844

“Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.”

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Preface to the First Ed, A vii. 1781
 

Editor's last word:

There is another section of Word Gems featuring the work of Kant. It remains uncompleted.

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