Excerpt from Kant's Inaugural Dissertation of 1770: Translated Into English With an Introduction and Discussion Uniting these in uences with a Christian education than which none better was imaginable, set Kant the scientist, deeming causality a mental law which under no circumstances is it permitted to desert, and from which no phenomenon must be excepted, at variance with Kant the moralist, destined to preach to the world the Categorical Imperative of duty, with its implications of freedom and per sonal responsibility. If phenomena are things in them selves, freedom cannot be saved.1 But, for moral actions, freedom must be saved. Hence the necessity for Kant of both a Sensible and an Intelligible world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."