The Scariest Passage in Kant

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With Halloween upon us, it is appropriate that I should present to my esteemed readers for their delectation if not horror the scariest passage in Kant's magnum opus:

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[EG]

Hi Bill,

Interesting passage from one of our great thinkers. I’d say that God, if he is what we imagine him to be, is not properly captured by human reason, sensibility or anything we can extrapolate from our being. This is probably a part of why he is both a higher and the highest. Roughly speaking, the rules as we understand them simply don’t apply to him. You can try to reason about it, but it’s fraught. But then by this understanding, we leave room for miracles and grace and things that are magical. And even as much as I desire to know and understand, I’m humble enough to understand and respect that, and still not inconsistently hold that it is a fun, if sometimes a somewhat wasteful exercise to try to imagine or reason out a better model/understanding of this—and perhaps there is a thread of this in best understanding of what Science does.