tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post8545749698858982040..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: Kant and gambling, 2Roger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-82861412714726431052010-05-21T17:12:24.118+02:002010-05-21T17:12:24.118+02:00good question. In the Anthropologie, Kant, warns a...good question. In the Anthropologie, Kant, warns about following too consciously the 'inner history of the involuntary course of one's thoughts and feelings' - because this is "the straight way, to fall into the mental confusion of the notably highly gifted and, without our wanting to, in regard to who knows from what source's influencing forces, into illuminationism or terrorism. Then all unawares we make here supposed discoveries about what we carry around inside us, like a Bourignon with his flattering, or a Pascal with his terrifying and fearful ideas, in which case even a otherwise fine mind, Albrecht Haller, got to the point, with his long undertaken but also often interrupted Diary of his mental state, of finally asking a famous theologian, his colleague Dr. Less, whether he could not in his broad reserve of divine learning be able to find comfort for his fearful soul." 444.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-79932063964236258492010-05-21T03:07:18.734+02:002010-05-21T03:07:18.734+02:00Did Kant read Pascal?Did Kant read Pascal?Brucenoreply@blogger.com