ABSTRACT
‘Nous sommes pleins de ténèbres’, writes Pascal. 1 The story told in this book ends with the Reflexionen written around 1769, with Kant’s discovery of new building blocks for his fortress of faith. A careful examination of the next steps in his development would show how this led, step by step, to the edifice of the Critique of Pure Reason, an edifice which Kant described as a humble dwelling-house, not as a tower reaching to the heavens (B735). This was not a newly found humility, but a constant trait of his thought, as we have seen. The new edifice was merely a more sturdy fortification, based on different and more sophisticated principles of construction than he had employed so far.
