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A Commentary On Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason, Tr. from the History of Modern Philosophy, with Explanatory Notes by J.P. Mahaffy
A Commentary On Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason Tr from the History of Modern Philosophy with Explanatory Notes by JP Mahaffy Author:Immanuel Kant, Ernst Kuno B. Fischer General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTION. liii both cases, or not. We have no evidence at all on the subject. (S) Hence, it would be absurd, if it were supposed the same, to call it either spiritual or material; and noumenal monism could not lead us to infer noumenal Idealism or Realism, (t) It being impossible to know anything about the noumenon (and as we cannot even apply the law of Parcimony, which is only a regulative principle in discussing phenomena), the critical philosophy results in problematical pluralism. The principle of this passage will be found very well enunciated by Dr. Fischer, below, p. 178, as taken from the First Edition (Appendix G., p. 355). He shows how Kant had already there perceived that the permanent which helps to determine our internal changes must be external; and also that external experience has just as much authority, and dignity, and evidence, as internal. But, being still opposed, and perhaps vexed by continued assertions of idealism, he determined to show that internal experience was not only not superior, but even necessarily dependent upon external for its very possibility. The fact that this latter argument replaces the discussion of the First Edition just referred to, is, I conceive, an additional proof of the correctness of this view. V. THE INTUITION OF SELF NOT IMMEDIATE. § 1. The most remarkable feature in Mr. Hansel's philosophy is undoubtedly the point which he (and indeed, on the question of liberty, M. Cousin also) has drawn to light from Des Cartes. The questions of substance, cause, and of liberty, Mr. Mansel settles upon much simpler, and at first sight more satisfactory gr...« less