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 Dinesh
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Since Kant uses “rationality” to mean thinking of oneself as an end in oneself, he at least includes in his definition an implication of time and a goal. This established the conditions for regret, because it establishes conditions for failure. Further, one could at least argue that the capacity for regret in a necessary element of this: if I couldn’t think of myself as falling short of a moral ideal just in case I did fall short, and view this retroactively as something in need of atonement, I would fail to have the proper kind of agency, which involves a comparing one’s actions to a moral standard. ~ Page 85

THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF REGRET
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 Dinesh
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. . . .The reason why we cannot locate causal connections anywhere within our experience of the world, and yet at the same time are unable to make the very notion of any such experience intelligible to ourselves without it, is that it is necessary ‘pre-condition’ of there being any experience of a world at all.

Kant’s conclusions opened up pathways of a completely new kind of frontiers of human knowledge and understanding. Before him, it had been assumed that if there were any limits to human knowledge we should eventually come up against them in our investigations of the world. Some people even believed that it would be possible for us to go on finding out more and more until there was nothing left to find out. But Kant introduced a hitherto undreamt of possibility, that the limits of possible human knowledge could be determined by investigating the limits of our own faculties. If it could be established with certainty what the pre-conditions are that need to be met with within our own faculties before we can have any experience of any knowledge at all, we should have succeeded in establishing in general terms the limits of all possible experience and knowledge. What particular experience of knowledge we then actually acquired within those limits would depend on circumstances, but there would be no circumstances in which we could acquire experience or knowledge outside them. This is not to say that there could be nothing outside them, but only that nothing outside them could be a possible object of experience or knowledge ‘for us’. ~ Page 69

What Schopenhauer regards as hiw own special contribution is to have developed the central tradition of Western philosophy to the point where it too encompasses these ultimate insights, and does so in a manner proper to philosophy -- that is to say, without any reference to God, or any appeal to religious faith, or to revelation, or any claim to unique personal insight, or to any other form of authority, but expressed throughout in terms of concepts whose formulation has been achieved by rational argument, argument which displays its credentials at every point along the way -- and which received manifold support from, without ever being in contradiction with, the great corpus of our scientific and other knowledge. This has been achieved by carrying forward by one more crucial step the great tradition that runs through Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. The giant stried in this progress is not the step between Kant and Schopenhauer but the step between Hume and Kant. This is what makes Kant the greatest single figure in modern philosophy ~ Page 225

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOPENHAUER
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