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Socrates Meets Kant: The Father of Philosophy Meets His Most Influential Modern Child is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Kreeft explains how Immanuel Kant was both a philosopher about how we know things (epistemology) and a philosopher of right and wrong (ethics). Kant’s philosophy of knowing truly was a “Copernican revolution in philosophy,” and his ethics were intended to lay a rational foundation for morality. If he had written only on either topic, he would still be among the most important and...

Then, if we were certain there was no physical cause, we would think there must be at least a mental cause, a hallucination or hypnosis. And if this somehow turned out to be also impossible, then as a last resort we might think it may have had a supernatural cause and been a miracle. For even a miracle—if it really happens—has a cause. Even a miracle does not violate the principle of causality. SOCRATES: All this sounds very reasonable to me. KANT: As it did to me. I assumed that this principle of
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