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The Self-Critique of Reason

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Years passed. Kant had not published anything in a long time: after the dissertation De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis and the two articles about the Philanthropin, there was only the review of Moscati’s book On the Difference in Bodily Structure between Man and Animal and the announcement of his lectures for 1775 (On Different Races of Man). The silence lasted eleven years.

Reason has always existed, just not always in the rational form.

K. Marx

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Gulyga, A. (1987). The Self-Critique of Reason. In: Immanuel Kant. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0542-2_3

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