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>The highest formal unity, which rests soley on concepts of reason is the PURPOSIVE UNITY OF THINGS. The speculative interest of reason makes it necessary to regard all order in the world as if it had originated in the INTENTION OF A SUPREME REASON
What did he mean by this, Lads?
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>reading Kant in English
There's your mistake OP
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That we are metaphysical animals who just can't STFU about metaphysics.
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>>9406136
God created the world
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The nomothetic quality of nature demands the postulation, without proof, of a devine intellect as prime cause.
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It does look like he's working his ass off to undermine metaphysics and God, which is what you would expect from an Enlightenment thinker, however...
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-religion/
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>>9406427
He doesn't say metaphysics is empty, only that its proper object is not ontological speculation, but immanent critique.
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