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Professor Royce's lecture last night was devoted to Fichte. Kant's doctrine held fast by existences themselves, but its development soon led to an unexpected opening into the theories of the idealists who ever doubt and deny all realities. This new philosophy thought that the infinite one pervades the whole world and that we in our righteousness are one with him. It is the essence of Christianity embodied in a speculative theory...
...Restatement of Kant's General Doctrine...
...possible transformation of Kant's World: First Statement of the Idealism common to Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, and of its relation to Christianity...
...Kant's attitude in philosophy is in exact antithesis to Spinoza's. Kant hated all mysticism and did not in the least believe that truth could spring from innate ideas, or be reached through experience. Truth exists for us because we make it. There is a divine world for us because we postulate it, because we act as if it existed. This part of Kant's doctrine is the ossence of common sense, and contains the philosophy of the modern high-minded man of the world. Kant only became difficult to understand when he proceeded to investigate all the world...
...Thus Kant and Spinoza are at almost opposite poles of reflection. Each stands for one phase of the higher thought of humanity...