Kant's Kritik of Judgment

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Macmillan and Company, 1892 - 429 pages
 

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Page xxiv - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life.
Page 143 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 170 - But under the seimis communis we must include the Idea of a sense common to all, ie of a faculty of judgment, which in its reflection takes account (a priori) of the mode of representation of all other men in thought ; in order as it were to compare its judgment with the collective Reason of humanity...
Page 197 - I understand that representation of the imagination which occasions much thought, without however any definite thought, ie any concept, being capable of being adequate to it; it consequently cannot be completely compassed and made intelligible by language.
Page 340 - But this method of reasoning can never have place with regard to a Being, so remote and incomprehensible, who bears much less analogy to any other being in the universe than the sun to a waxen taper...
Page 147 - In all these cases, if the pain and terror are so modified as not to be actually noxious, — if the pain is not carried to violence, and the terror is not conversant about the present destruction of the person...
Page 134 - Sublime thus : it is an object (of nature) the representation of which determines the mind to think the unattainability of nature regarded as a presentation of Ideas.
Page 340 - I say, it must evidently appear contrary to all rules of analogy to reason, from the intentions and projects of men, to those of a Being so different, and so much superior. In human nature, there is a certain experienced coherence of designs and inclinations; so that when, from any fact, we have discovered one intention of any man, it may often be reasonable, from experience, to infer another, and draw a long chain of conclusions concerning his past or future conduct. But this method of reasoning...
Page 201 - The consciousness of virtue, even where we put ourselves only in thought in the position of a virtuous man, diffuses in the mind a multitude of sublime and...
Page 294 - Some products of material nature cannot be judged to be possible according to merely mechanical laws. (To judge them requires quite a different law of causality, namely, that of final causes...

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