The Philosophy of Kant Explained

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J. Maclehose and sons, 1908 - 515 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 257 - Thesis. Causality, according to the laws of nature, is not the only causality from which all the phenomena of the world can be deduced. In order to account for these phenomena it is necessary also to admit another causality, that of freedom.
الصفحة 255 - ... every composite substance in the world is made up of simple parts, and nothing anywhere exists save the simple or what is composed of the simple...
الصفحة 329 - Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
الصفحة 454 - Some products of material nature cannot be judged to be possible according to merely mechanical laws. (To judge them requires quite a different law of causality, namely, that of final causes...
الصفحة 384 - ... the recognition of all duties as divine commands, not as sanctions, that is to say, arbitrary ordinances of a foreign will and contingent in themselves, but as essential laws of every free will in itself, which nevertheless, must be regarded as commands of the Supreme Being, because it is only from a morally perfect (holy and good) and at the same time all-powerful will, and consequently only through harmony with this will that we can hope to attain the summum bonum which the moral law makes...
الصفحة 327 - So act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.
الصفحة 322 - Act as if the maxim from which you act were to become through your will a universal law of nature.
الصفحة 316 - ... pattern, but by no means can it authoritatively furnish the conception of morality. Even the Holy One of the Gospels must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before we can recognize Him as such; and so He says of Himself, "Why call ye Me (whom you see) good; none is good (the model of good) but God only (whom ye do not see) ?" But whence have we the conception of God as the supreme good?
الصفحة 3 - When religion seeks to shelter itself behind its sanctity, and law behind its majesty, they justly awaken suspicion against themselves, and lose all claim to the sincere respect which reason yields only to that which has been able to bear the test of its free and open scrutiny.
الصفحة 107 - ... conceptions of pleasure and pain, desire and inclination, etc., which in their origin are empirical. In a systematic division of this science we must have, firstly, a doctrine of the elements ; secondly, a doctrine of the method of pure reason. As to the subdivisions, it seems enough to say at present that there are two stems of human knowledge — Sensibility and Understanding, which may perhaps spring from a common root, unknown to us, and that by the one objects are given, by the other they...

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