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...nature has resulted in the progress of science. But our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. The world of our present natural knowledge is a show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame no positive idea. As Kant pointed out, of this unknowable world we are morally bound to postulate a Divine Moral Order. Because it is our duty to treat the unknown world as if it were divine and moral, we practically know for certain that it is divine and moral. The inner need of believing that...
...chief types of ethical thought, with special reference to the schools of Socrates and Kant. It will be in charge of Dr. Santayana...
...retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness that comes with age to good books as to good men. Mere scholarship is as useless as the collecting of old postage stamps. Kant used to say that there was nothing in the world so dreary as the company of mere scholars. With nothing but Lemprire's Dictionary and Chapman's Homer, Keats at twenty...
...demands more than that. Therefore, it is the general good to be derived from it which I wish to emphasize. However, it is not only the writers of truths which are attractive; Voltaire, in spite of his petty foibles, Sydney Smith and Lamb with their delightful humor, Heine and Kant; they all have their virtues...
...conclusion, this view, which holds that the world of mechanism is itself essentially "teleological." is applied to the case of the relation between body and mind, and to the problem of human "Freedom." The latter is solved in the sense of Kant's famous doctrine of the "two-fold" human nature, "empirical" and "transcendental," "fatal" and "free...