A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

by Norman Kemp Smith

[1385] Cf. Vaihinger, “Kant—ein Metaphysiker?” in Philosophische Abhandlungen (Sigwart Gedenkschrift), p. 144.

[1386] A 312 = B 368.

[1387] A 313 = B 370.

[1388] A 316-17 = B 373. The context of this passage is a defence of Plato’s Republic against the charge that it is Utopian, because unrealisable.

[1389] A 317-18 = B 374-5.

[1390] Reflexionen ii. 1240. Cf. Schopenhauer: World as Will and Idea (Werke, ii. p. 277: Eng. trans. i. p. 303): “The Idea is the unity that falls into multiplicity on account of the temporal and spatial form of our intuitive apprehension; the concept, on the contrary, is the unity reconstructed out of multiplicity by the abstraction of our reason; the latter may be defined as unitas post rem, the former as unitas ante rem.”

[1391] Lectures on Metaphysics (Pölitz, 1821), p. 79.

[1392] Reflexionen ii. 1243.

[1393] Lectures on Metaphysics, pp. 308-9.

[1394] Reflexionen ii. 1244.