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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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Perhaps, therefore, it may be concluded from the precedent reasoning, that the evidence of all ancient history must now be lost; or at least, will be lost in time, as the chain of causes encreases, and runs on to a greater length. But this, in my opinion, is not a sufficient reason for excluding them from the catalogue of virtues. This reasoning a priori is confirmed by experience. Therefore, as in the absolute totality of the regressive synthesis of the manifold in a phenomenon (following the guidance of the categories, which represent it as a series of conditions to a given conditioned) the unconditioned is necessarily contained--it being still left unascertained whether and how this totality exists; reason sets out from the idea of totality, although its proper and final aim is the unconditioned--of the whole series, or of a part thereof. If, however, we neglect this restriction of the idea to a purely regulative influence, reason is betrayed into numerous errors. But this permanent something cannot be something in me, for the very reason that my existence in time is itself determined by this permanent something. Upon examination, I find only one of the reasons commonly produced for this opinion to be satisfactory, viz. In these circumstances we shall render an important service to reason if we succeed in simply indicating the path along which it must travel, in order to arrive at any results--even if it should be found necessary to abandon many of those aims which, without reflection, have been proposed for its attainment.