Unity of Reason Rap Song

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For with what right
can reason,
in its logical
exercise, require us to regard
the variety
of forces
which nature displays,
as in effect
a disguised unity,

and to deduce them
from one fundamental force
or power,
when she is free to admit
that it is just
as possible that all forces
should be different in kind,

and that
a systematic unity
is not conformable
to the design
of nature? ”


Neither can we assert
that reason
has previously
inferred this unity
from the contingent nature
of phenomena.

For the law of reason
which requires us
to seek for this unity
is a necessary
law,

inasmuch as without it
we should not possess
a faculty of reason,

nor without reason
a consistent
and self-accordant mode
of employing
the understanding,
nor, in the absence of this,
any proper and sufficient
criterion of empirical truth.

-- Immanuel Kant, “The Critique of Pure Reason.”. Section 37.

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