ABSTRACT
This passage was originally written as a way to begin a critique of those forms of philosophical idealism that speculatively shun the resistance and troubles and lessons of the world, lessons that might, in their resistance to the flights of reason, help shape and strengthen and measure our philosophizing. It was written by Immanuel Kant as a critique of the perceived constructive freedom of human thinking (see chap. 8). Our constructs are not enough until they feel the resistance of “application.”
