Herder's critique of pure reason.(Johann Gottfried von Herder)(Critical essay)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: Sikka, Sonia | Copyright information

J.G. HERDER WROTE in 1799 a lengthy and stridently polemical work attacking Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. This work, entitled A Metacritique of the Critique of Pure Reason, complains, among other things, that "to make oneself independent of oneself, i.e. to place oneself beyond all original, inner and outer experience, to think beyond oneself, entirely free of the empirical: this no one can do." (1) While plausible in itself, such a claim at first seems odd as an objection to the...

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