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Full Idea
Reason does not gladly suffer constraint in the paroxysms of its lust for speculative expansion.
Gist of Idea
Reason hates to be limited in its speculations
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B814/A786)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.667
A Reaction
This uncharacteristic outburst shows Kant's great commitment to the limitations of reason, despite his constant assertions that it is 'pure', and that it is the basis of all value.
| 350 | In investigation the body leads us astray, but the soul gets a clear view of the facts [Plato] |
| 17194 | Reason only explains what is universal, so it is timeless, under a certain form of eternity [Spinoza] |
| 4840 | Reason perceives things under a certain form of eternity [Spinoza] |
| 19335 | Reasonings have a natural ordering in God's understanding, but only a temporal order in ours [Leibniz] |
| 5578 | Pure reason deals with concepts in the understanding, not with objects [Kant] |
| 5603 | Pure reason exists outside of time [Kant] |
| 5616 | Pure reason is only concerned with itself because it deals with understandings, not objects [Kant] |
| 5628 | Reason hates to be limited in its speculations [Kant] |
| 21054 | Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions [Kant] |
| 22081 | Let thought follow its own course, and don't interfere [Hegel] |
| 10804 | Thoughts have a natural order, to which human thinking is drawn [Frege, by Yablo] |
| 8251 | The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom [McDowell] |
| 3651 | Perceiving necessary connections is the essence of reasoning [Bonjour] |