Kantian meditation
Jun. 9th, 2019 10:52 pm
... it must be perfectly
indifferent to you
whether you say,
when you
have discovered
this unity:
God has wisely
willed
it so;
or:
Nature has wisely
arranged.
For it was nothing but
the systematic unity,
which reason
requires
as a basis for the investigation
of nature,
that justified you
in accepting
the idea of
a supreme intelligence
as a schema for
a regulative principle;
and, the farther you
advance in the discovery
of design
and finality, the more certain
the validity
of your
idea.
...
These principles,
by placing the goal of all
our struggles
at so great
a distance,
realize for us
the most thorough
connection between
the different parts of
our cognition,
and the highest
degree of systematic unity.
But,
on the other hand,
if misunderstood
and employed as
constitutive principles
of transcendent cognition,
they become
the parents of illusions
and contradictions,
while pretending to
introduce us to
new regions of
knowledge.
--- Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason.
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Date: 2019-06-10 06:27 am (UTC)И спасибо за переклад на стихи. Отличный подход.
А так читать, длинными предложениями - ничего не понятно.
Спасибо.
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Date: 2019-06-10 04:06 pm (UTC)