Thus, when arrived at maturity, he recovers his
childhood by an artificial process, he founds a state of nature in
his ideas, not given him by any experience, but established by the
necessary laws and conditions of his reason, and he attributes to
this ideal an object, an aim, of which he was not
cognisant in the actual reality of nature.
childhood by an artificial process, he founds a state of nature in
his ideas, not given him by any experience, but established by the
necessary laws and conditions of his reason, and he attributes to
this ideal an object, an aim, of which he was not
cognisant in the actual reality of nature.
Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant
