The Enlightenment: The rise of modern paganismKnopf, 1966 - Enlightenment |
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... Kant expressed some skepticism about his century . “ If someone asks , ” he observed , “ are we living in an ... Kant's observation is penetrating and important . Even late in the eighteenth century , for all their influence and palpable ...
... Kant expressed some skepticism about his century . “ If someone asks , ” he observed , “ are we living in an ... Kant's observation is penetrating and important . Even late in the eighteenth century , for all their influence and palpable ...
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... Kant , it is a science of limits , and he ends his essay with an appeal to " honest Candide " : " Let us provide for our happiness , let us go into the garden and work . " In his great Critiques , Kant held to the same position ; he was ...
... Kant , it is a science of limits , and he ends his essay with an appeal to " honest Candide " : " Let us provide for our happiness , let us go into the garden and work . " In his great Critiques , Kant held to the same position ; he was ...
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... Kant's claims for philosophy and his Streit der Fakultäten are well discussed in Cassirer , Kant , 417–24 . Karl Jaspers has some relevant comments on Kant's pride in philosophizing in his chapter on Kant in The Great Philoso- phers ...
... Kant's claims for philosophy and his Streit der Fakultäten are well discussed in Cassirer , Kant , 417–24 . Karl Jaspers has some relevant comments on Kant's pride in philosophizing in his chapter on Kant in The Great Philoso- phers ...
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The Enlightenment in Its World | 3 |
THE APPEAL TO ANTIQUITY | 29 |
From Identification | 59 |
Copyright | |
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