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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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If we permit ourselves to be deceived by the illusion of transcendental idealism, we shall find that neither nature nor freedom exists. For if phenomena are things in themselves, freedom is impossible. Nature, therefore, and transcendental freedom are distinguishable as conformity to law and lawlessness. This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,* that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason. But this, taking its rise in moral order as a unity founded on the essence of freedom, and not accidentally instituted by external commands, establishes the teleological view of nature on grounds which must be inseparably connected with the internal possibility of things. We have found, it is true, that the systematic unity of nature could not be established according to speculative principles of reason, because, while reason possesses a causal power in relation to freedom, it has none in relation to the whole sphere of nature; and, while moral principles of reason can produce free actions, they cannot produce natural laws. Exposition of the Cosmological Idea of Freedom in Harmony with the Universal Law of Natural Necessity.