"La critique de la raison conduit donc nécessairement, en fin de compte, à la science ; l'usage dogmatique de la raison, sans critique, conduit au contraire à des affirmations sans fondement, auxquelles on peut opposer d'autres affirmations tout aussi spécieuses, par conséquent au scepticisme."
Emmanuel Kant, Critique de la raison pure, Introduction.
Peut-être Kant n'utilise-t'il pas le terme "scepticisme" sous le même sens que nous lui donnons de nos jours...
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You won't be surprised that Kant was a multi-dimensional philosopher. At times, he is plainly in the scientific realm, some other times in the romantic realm (the one that reacted quite negatively to the power of science and defined itself in opposition to the Enlightenment). After saying this, however, I am not sure exactly what he means here and maybe you are right that it is only a semantic issue.
You seem to know more about Kant than I do. I must admit that I have just given up reading his "critique de la raison pure" because, like with Marx, I have a really hard time understanding his complicated sentences. I just have one more quotation from Kant to post tonight.
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