… so the story starts with Kant who is to us philosophers what Swinburne the poet said the sea was, the great grey mother of us all. — Robert Brandom, Self-Consciousness and Freedom. Beyond the baccalauréat and everything that remains of it in all the circles where this diploma is a certificate of culture, Kant is, so to speak,
"...it seems to me that the trumpeting central insight of Kant's practical philosophy is his perception of the metaphysical implications to which any such (acceptance of the existence of freedom) commits us. What seems to me the inescapable fact that I and others sometimes have free choice - even that alone - forces me at the level of argument to the conclusion that an important part of total reality is independent of scientific law." - Bryan Magee, "Confessions of a Philosopher".
"...it seems to me that the trumpeting central insight of Kant's practical philosophy is his perception of the metaphysical implications to which any such (acceptance of the existence of freedom) commits us. What seems to me the inescapable fact that I and others sometimes have free choice - even that alone - forces me at the level of argument to the conclusion that an important part of total reality is independent of scientific law." - Bryan Magee, "Confessions of a Philosopher".