The Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant

[nwhyte]

Second paragraph of third chapter (actually I found it rather difficult to count to three here, but this will do):

The effect of an object upon the faculty of representation, so far as we are affected by the said object, is sensation. That sort of intuition which relates to an object by means of sensation is called an empirical intuition. The

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[johnny9fingers]

By the time you get to applied reason he synthesises morality from an hierarchical table of values. (Glib and wrong, for a given value of wrong; but sort of appropriate.)

The story isn’t worth the punchline maybe; but the Vatican put it on the index because it did away with the need for God. In some respects Kant is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra; having shown us how we have killed God he exhorts us to become worthy of the deed.