Sublime

The highest duty of the government remains therefore unchangeably that of justice, and in the second place it has to care for the people as a unit, partly at home, in order that its unity mav grow ever deeper and may not be disturbed, and partly abroad, lest the national existence suffer harm.

The empiricists and Kant declared that metaphysics is impossible.

This revolution is required in order to get from the unstated and almost always uncontested assumption of our contemporary society that autonomy and choice are necessarily and of themselves both possible and ultimately good to the biblical view that autonomy (understood in the sense of being independent from God in our judgements and evaluations) i

Man konnte und sollte auf ein besseres Leben in dieser Welt hoffen, nicht erst in der nächsten, weil Menschen über die moralischen Fähigkeiten verfügten, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen,

All this began with the Kantian turn in philosophy, in which the object is always in some degree the creation of the subject.

Si tu vis dans une société démocratique qui protège les libertés individuelles, tu le dois en partie à Kant. Il fut l’un des premiers à soutenir que tous les individus possédaient une dignité intrinsèque qui devait être reconnue et respectée2. Il fut le premier à imaginer un organisme international capable de garantir la paix dans le monde (idée qu