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Kant: Transcendental idealism


The school he atteded raised children according to the tenets of Pietism, a seventeenth-century Christian evangelical movement emphasizing devotional meetings, Bible study, and personal religious experience.


At the time, the philosophy of Leibniz and the science of Newton dominated not only the university but much of continental Europe; many, perhaps most, scholars had come to believe that philosophy, science, and mathematics would soon integrate into one complete system of knowledge.


By all accounts Kant was extremely studious and competent but showed no particular flair or originality; certainly his teachers had no idea that he would one day be regarded as one of the most important thinkers of modern times.


At one point he was reprimanded for the "distortion of many leading and fundamental doctrines of holy writ and Christianity", by no less than the Prussian king.


他所关注的学校按照虔诚的原则抚养孩子,这是一个17世纪的基督教福音运动,强调奉献会议、圣经学习和个人宗教经验。

当时,莱布尼兹的哲学和牛顿的科学不仅统治着大学,而且统治着欧洲大陆的大部分地区;许多学者,也许是大多数人,已经开始相信哲学、科学和数学很快就会融入到一个完整的知识体系中。

总之,康德非常勤奋和有能力,但没有表现出特别的天赋和独创性;当然,他的老师不知道有一天他会被视为现代最重要的思想家之一。

有一次,他因为“扭曲了许多主要和基本的教义,包括圣经和基督教”,受到了不少于普鲁士国王的谴责。

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willer
willer
Jan 06, 2019

Write an essay giving your definition of beauty and explain.

写一篇文章,给出你对美的定义并加以解释。


https://lanfeizi.wixsite.com/english-learning/blog/definition-and-nature-of-beauty

美的定义和本质

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willer
willer
Jan 06, 2019

His personal life was anything but illustrious. He never married. He did not socialize, though he was known for his extreme politeness and graciousness. Not once during his entire life did he venture outside of town. The only time he went out was for his daily walk at half past four. His neighbors considered him a charming, if rather reclusive, eccentric.


"As a remedy he wrote the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Designed for the use not of students but of teachers, the much shorter and more easily accessible Prolegomena provides the groundwork for understanding the Critique of Pure Reason. But the Critique, "which discusses the pure faculty of reason in its whole compass and bounds, will remain the foundation…


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