Page:Immanuel Kant - Dreams of a Spirit-Seer - tr. Emanuel Fedor Goerwitz (1900).djvu/26



"Kant delights in the assertion that we are imprisoned by the senses, i.e., by the limitations of sensuous appearances … 'The highest Being will surely not be subject to all these appearances which sense unavoidably imposes on those intelligences derived by us through experience.' (A. 640). 'All Nature exists only for us …' This Kant formulates expressly as the result of the Æsthetic in the Prolegomena, § 36: 'How is nature possible in material relation, that is, viewed as the concept of appearances? how are Space, Time, and what fill these as objects of sensation possible? The answer is: By means of the peculiar quality of our sensuous faculty ? (unserer Sinnlichkeit): according to which our Sense in a way of its own is moved by objects which in themselves are not known to it and are altogether different from these appearances.' The appearance of Space answers therefore only for this empirical nature and for us as empirical subjects: it is not valid either for all objects in themselves, nor for all subjects …" p. 344.