Brad’s Reviews > Critique of Pure Reason > Status Update

Firstly, thanks to those who recommended Robert Paul Wolff's lecture series on this epistemological juggernaut. They've helped immensely.

...That said, I'm six lectures in, and because he doesn't go into it beyond a passing remark or two, I'm not exactly sure why Wolff disdains any mention of Hegel.

The ghost of Schopenhauer is definitely smirking regardless, but pessimism doesn't strike me as Wolff's angle.

"The voyage of our reason should be continued only as far as the continuous coasts of experience extend."

A constitution founded on the greatest human freedom according to laws which ensure that the freedom of each can exist side by side with the freedom of others (without any regard to the greatest happiness, because that will surely follow by itself) is at least a necessary idea, on which not only the first plan of the constitution of a state, but also all laws must be based.

A distinction is commonly made between wgat is immediately known and what is only inferred...As we are constantly obliged to make inferences, we grow so accustomed to it that in the end we no longer notice this distinction, and often...mistake what we have only inferred for something perceived immediately.

"Inner experience in general is possible only through outer experience in general."