ABSTRACT

In his copy of his book Remarks on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime Immanuel Kant wrote a series of notes. This note has particularly caught the interpreters' attention. It has been seen as a sign of Rousseau's strong influence on Kant. According to some interpreters, Rousseau inspires not only Kantian ethics, but also Kantian criticism of the faculties of reason: Kant takes from Rousseau's work not only the idea of the independence of morality from knowledge of the supersensible, but also the program of a philosophy which immediately presupposes man's moral dignity, and then on this assumption builds the analysis of other fields of experience. God as an object for meditation is only an image; God as the legislator of a moral code always remains beyond images, even when we speak about him and try to know him.