Beskrivelse
Superb short take on Kant and why not make use of secondary sources for a philosopher whose complexity can be daunting. There are a host of more recent commentaries but this classic is still more than useful. Kant is perhaps the key philosopher of the modern period but he has been picked to pieces by a species of pseudo-philosophic cavil that has left the false impression that philosophers have somehow refuted his fundamentals and/or yielded laurels to the stylistic bravura but philosophic muddle of Nietzsche. Too many students of Kant get lost in the first two sections of Kant’s great classic, The Critique of Pure Reason, and the result is incomprehension. There is nothing wrong with an indirect approach and an historical account that clarifies the task Kant set for himself. This short commentary is a gem and can be a helpful starting point.
