Quotes About Kant

Kant fue criado como un "pietista", una versión del luteranismo que destacaba la simplicidad y evitaba la ornamentación externa. Consecuentemente no tenía retratos o pinturas en ninguna de las paredes de su casa, con una excepción: sobre su escritorio en su estudio colgó un retrato de Rousseau[39], y escribió: "He aprendido a honrar

In Hegel's view, Kant is the father of the critical era in philosophy to which we all now belong. He contends, however, that Kant himself did not carry out a sufficiently profound critique of the categories. What Kant did, in Hegel's view, was – mistakenly – restrict their range of validity: he argued that they should be employed to understand only possible objects of experience, but not things 'in themselves'.

For Hegel, therefore, all truly critical philosophy in the wake of Kant is governed by the following imperative: all 'presuppositions or assumptions must equally be given up when we enter into science'. Science – that is to say, philosophy – should thus be 'preceded by universal doubt, i.e.,

Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Her usçu Kant ile birlikte ?unlar? söyleyebilmelidir: Felsefe ö?retilemez - olsa olsa felsefe yapmak ö?retilebilir; yani ele?tirel yakla??m. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

But people who are not above the general level of consciousness have not yet discovered that it is just as pre- sumptuous and fantastic to assume that matter produces mind, that apes give rise to human beings, that from the harmonious interplay of the drives of hunger, love, and power Kant's Critique of Pure Reason should have emerged, and that all this could not possibly be other than it is.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible.

It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction necessarily to every one.

Hence we may at once dismiss as easily foreseen but futile objection, "that by our admitting the ideality of space and of time the whole sensible world would be turned into mere illusion.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

For if phenomena are things by themselves, freedom cannot be saved. Nature in that case is the complete and sufficient cause determining every event, and its condition is always contained in that series of phenomena only which, together with their effect, are necessary under the law of nature.

For if we regard space and time as properties that must, as regards their possibility, be found in things in themselves, [...] then we really cannot blame the good Bishop Berkeley for degrading bodies to mere illusion. Nay, even our own existence, which would thus be made dependent on the self-subsistent reality of a non-entity such as time, would, along with this time, be changed into mere illusion - an absurdity of which hitherto no one has been guilty.

But freedom is a mere Idea, the objective reality of which can in no wise be shown according to the laws of nature, and consequently not in any possible experience; and for this reason it can never be comprehended or understood, because we cannot support it by any sort of example or analogy.

the doctrine of morals is an autonomy of practical reason, while the doctrine of virtue is at the same time an autocracy of practical reason.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La felicidad no brota de la razón sino de la imaginación (Immanuel Kant)

whose true object is to shed the clearest light on every step which reason takes.

The crux of his new philosophy is this: What assurance do we have that our a priori (rational) thoughts have in reality a relation to objects that exist apart from us?