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}</style></head><body><div class="ED-TEI"><p class="ED-titleStmt"><span class="ED-persName-sent">Friedrich Paulsen</span> an <span class="ED-persName-received">Vaihinger</span>, <span class="ED-location-sent">Steglitz bei Berlin</span>, <span class="ED-date">11.6.1899</span>, <span class="ED-note">3 S., hs., Briefkopf </span><span class="ED-rdg">FRIEDRICH PAULSEN | STEGLITZ BEI BERLIN, DEN … | FICHTESTR. 31.</span>, <span class="ED-pubPlace">Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, Aut. XXIII, 2 c–20</span></p><div class="ED-text"><p class="ED-dateline"><span class="ED-label-formprint">11. 6. 99</span></p><p class="ED-salute">Verehrtester Herr <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-1" title="College! ] danach 2 Zeilen frei gelassen&#xD;&#xA;">College!</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-1" id="app-philological-1-ref" title="College! ] danach 2 Zeilen frei gelassen">[a]</a></p><p class="ED-p">Ich muß Ihnen doch gleich mit einem Wort für <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-1" title="Ihre eben … m. Kant ] vgl. Vaihinger: Rezension: Immanuel Kant, Sein Leben und seine Lehre. Von Friedrich Paulsen. Mit Bildnis und einem Briefe Kants aus den Jahren 1792, Stuttgart, Fr. Frommann’s Verlag, 1898 – pp. XII, 396. In: The Philosophical Review 8 (1899), Nr. 3 von Mai, S. 300–305, Digitalisat: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2176245?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad87d832bf4e4edeb5ac93655cbc0035c&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (12.7.2021).&#xD;&#xA;">Ihre eben angelangte Besprechung m</span><span class="ED-add"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-1" title="Ihre eben … m. Kant ] vgl. Vaihinger: Rezension: Immanuel Kant, Sein Leben und seine Lehre. Von Friedrich Paulsen. Mit Bildnis und einem Briefe Kants aus den Jahren 1792, Stuttgart, Fr. Frommann’s Verlag, 1898 – pp. XII, 396. In: The Philosophical Review 8 (1899), Nr. 3 von Mai, S. 300–305, Digitalisat: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2176245?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad87d832bf4e4edeb5ac93655cbc0035c&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (12.7.2021).&#xD;&#xA;">[eines]</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-1" title="Ihre eben … m. Kant ] vgl. Vaihinger: Rezension: Immanuel Kant, Sein Leben und seine Lehre. Von Friedrich Paulsen. Mit Bildnis und einem Briefe Kants aus den Jahren 1792, Stuttgart, Fr. Frommann’s Verlag, 1898 – pp. XII, 396. In: The Philosophical Review 8 (1899), Nr. 3 von Mai, S. 300–305, Digitalisat: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2176245?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad87d832bf4e4edeb5ac93655cbc0035c&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (12.7.2021).&#xD;&#xA;"> </span><span class="ED-name"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-1" title="Ihre eben … m. Kant ] vgl. Vaihinger: Rezension: Immanuel Kant, Sein Leben und seine Lehre. Von Friedrich Paulsen. Mit Bildnis und einem Briefe Kants aus den Jahren 1792, Stuttgart, Fr. Frommann’s Verlag, 1898 – pp. XII, 396. In: The Philosophical Review 8 (1899), Nr. 3 von Mai, S. 300–305, Digitalisat: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2176245?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad87d832bf4e4edeb5ac93655cbc0035c&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (12.7.2021).&#xD;&#xA;">Kant</span></span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-1" id="app-editorial-1-ref" title="Ihre eben … m. Kant ] vgl. Vaihinger: Rezension: Immanuel Kant, Sein Leben und seine Lehre. Von Friedrich Paulsen. Mit Bildnis und einem Briefe Kants aus den Jahren 1792, Stuttgart, Fr. Frommann’s Verlag, 1898 – pp. XII, 396. In: The Philosophical Review 8 (1899), Nr. 3 von Mai, S. 300–305, Digitalisat: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2176245?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad87d832bf4e4edeb5ac93655cbc0035c&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (12.7.2021).">[1]</a> danken. Sie beschämen mich durch die liebenswürdige Aufnahme m<span class="ED-add">[einer]</span> Arbeiten, wie der früheren, so nun im besonderen des <span class="ED-name">Kant</span>.</p><p class="ED-p"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-2" title="Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter. ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 303: [Paulsens] exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [Kursiv:] The veil, [Kursivierung Ende] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.&#xD;&#xA;">Was den Punkt anlangt, den Sie als Gegenstand möglicher Kontroverse hinstellen: </span><span class="ED-name"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-2" title="Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter. ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 303: [Paulsens] exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [Kursiv:] The veil, [Kursivierung Ende] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.&#xD;&#xA;">Kant</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-2" title="Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter. ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 303: [Paulsens] exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [Kursiv:] The veil, [Kursivierung Ende] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.&#xD;&#xA;">s Metaphysik, so bin ich durchaus bereit zuzugeben, daß die Sache im wesentlichen liegt wie Sie sagen: was bei </span><span class="ED-name"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-2" title="Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter. ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 303: [Paulsens] exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [Kursiv:] The veil, [Kursivierung Ende] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.&#xD;&#xA;">Kant</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-2" title="Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter. ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 303: [Paulsens] exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [Kursiv:] The veil, [Kursivierung Ende] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.&#xD;&#xA;"> nur wie durch einen Schleier gesehen wird, das ist hier in helles Licht gestellt </span><abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-2" title="Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter. ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 303: [Paulsens] exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [Kursiv:] The veil, [Kursivierung Ende] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.&#xD;&#xA;">u.</span></abbr><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-2" title="Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter. ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 303: [Paulsens] exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [Kursiv:] The veil, [Kursivierung Ende] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.&#xD;&#xA;"> erhält nun dadurch wirklich einen etwas anderen Charakter.</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-2" id="app-editorial-2-ref" title="Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter. ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 303: [Paulsens] exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [Kursiv:] The veil, [Kursivierung Ende] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.">[2]</a> Bei einer Reproduktion <span class="ED-pb">|</span> eines Gedankensystems wird es wohl nicht leicht möglich sein, diesem Fehler zu entgehen: die Mitteltöne fallen aus. Ich möchte sagen: in Ihrer Besprechung ist dasselbe zu beobachten: die Hervorhebung der Metaphysik in m<span class="ED-add">[einem]</span> Buch erscheint hier <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-2" title="nur ] kann auch nun heißen&#xD;&#xA;">nur</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-2" id="app-philological-2-ref" title="nur ] kann auch nun heißen">[b]</a> noch wieder stärker <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> einseitiger als sein besondrer Charakter.</p><p class="ED-p">Aber es geht nun nicht anders. Und ich wollte auch die Seite, die meist ganz ausfällt, einmal so beleuchten, daß man sie sehen muß, <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-3" title="mit [Johann Gottlieb] Fichte: ein Versuch, den Leser zum Sehen zu zwingen, ] vgl. den Untertitel von Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: Sonnenklarer Bericht an das größere Publikum über das eigentliche Wesen der neuesten Philosophie. Ein Versuch, die Leser zum Verstehen zu zwingen. Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung 1801; vgl. Paulsen an Vaihinger vom 12.3.1903.&#xD;&#xA;">mit </span><span class="ED-name"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-3" title="mit [Johann Gottlieb] Fichte: ein Versuch, den Leser zum Sehen zu zwingen, ] vgl. den Untertitel von Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: Sonnenklarer Bericht an das größere Publikum über das eigentliche Wesen der neuesten Philosophie. Ein Versuch, die Leser zum Verstehen zu zwingen. Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung 1801; vgl. Paulsen an Vaihinger vom 12.3.1903.&#xD;&#xA;">[Johann Gottlieb] Fichte</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-3" title="mit [Johann Gottlieb] Fichte: ein Versuch, den Leser zum Sehen zu zwingen, ] vgl. den Untertitel von Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: Sonnenklarer Bericht an das größere Publikum über das eigentliche Wesen der neuesten Philosophie. Ein Versuch, die Leser zum Verstehen zu zwingen. Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung 1801; vgl. Paulsen an Vaihinger vom 12.3.1903.&#xD;&#xA;">: ein Versuch, den Leser zum Sehen zu zwingen,</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-3" id="app-editorial-3-ref" title="mit [Johann Gottlieb] Fichte: ein Versuch, den Leser zum Sehen zu zwingen, ] vgl. den Untertitel von Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: Sonnenklarer Bericht an das größere Publikum über das eigentliche Wesen der neuesten Philosophie. Ein Versuch, die Leser zum Verstehen zu zwingen. Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung 1801; vgl. Paulsen an Vaihinger vom 12.3.1903.">[3]</a> <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-3" title="zum Sehen ] Einfügung über der Zeile&#xD;&#xA;">zum Sehen</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-3" id="app-philological-3-ref" title="zum Sehen ] Einfügung über der Zeile">[c]</a> des im Halbdunkel <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-4" title="der Kritik der reinen Vernunft ] der Kr. d. r. V., Einfügung über der Zeile&#xD;&#xA;">der Kritik der reinen Vernunft</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-4" id="app-philological-4-ref" title="der Kritik der reinen Vernunft ] der Kr. d. r. V., Einfügung über der Zeile">[d]</a> verschwimmenden.</p><p class="ED-p">Übrigens kann vielleicht <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-philological-5" title="der ] verbessert aus: die&#xD;&#xA;">der</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-philological-5" id="app-philological-5-ref" title="der ] verbessert aus: die">[e]</a> <span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;">Aufsatz in Ihren Studien (Kant d</span><span class="ED-add"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;">[er]</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;"> Philos</span><span class="ED-add"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;">[oph]</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;"> d</span><span class="ED-add"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;">[es]</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;"> Protest</span><span class="ED-add"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;">[antismus]</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-4" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.&#xD;&#xA;">)</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-4" id="app-editorial-4-ref" title="Aufsatz … Protest.) ] vgl. Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien 4 ([1899]/1900), S. 1–31.">[4]</a> einigermaassen als Korrektiv dienen: hier wird der Abstand gegen <span class="ED-name">Thomas</span> <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> den Dogmatismus hervorgehoben, während in dem Buch der Abstand gegen <span class="ED-name">Hume</span> betont wird.</p><p class="ED-p">Mit besten Grüssen <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> Wünschen Ihr sehr ergebener</p><p class="ED-signed">Paulsen. <span class="ED-pb">|</span></p><hr class="ED-postscript"/><p class="ED-p"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-5" title="Ihre Formel … Entwickelung dadurch ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 301–302: […] I would note as the most characteristic thing in Kant: [Kursiv:] The power of the spirit within the limits set to it. [Kursivierung Ende] As he emphasized this power of the spirit in his life even into the smallest particulars, so it is also the chief note in his entire philosophy: To do justice to the mighty power of the spirit, of the intellectual and moral spirit, – but within the limits and boundaries set to it. […] The same formula contains within it, as a mathematical formula, also the entire history of Kant’s development. The three periods, then, of this development, which Paulsen correctly distinguishes […] are related to each other in the following way: in the first period Kant, in common with dogmatism, believes in the unlimited power of the spirit; in the second period, on the other hand, in common with empiricism, the limits of this power were, quite as onesidedly exaggerated; and only in the third period does Kant develop the peculiar character of his criticism, – the conviction of the spirit’s power within the limits set to it.&#xD;&#xA;">Ihre Formel für </span><span class="ED-name"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-5" title="Ihre Formel … Entwickelung dadurch ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 301–302: […] I would note as the most characteristic thing in Kant: [Kursiv:] The power of the spirit within the limits set to it. [Kursivierung Ende] As he emphasized this power of the spirit in his life even into the smallest particulars, so it is also the chief note in his entire philosophy: To do justice to the mighty power of the spirit, of the intellectual and moral spirit, – but within the limits and boundaries set to it. […] The same formula contains within it, as a mathematical formula, also the entire history of Kant’s development. The three periods, then, of this development, which Paulsen correctly distinguishes […] are related to each other in the following way: in the first period Kant, in common with dogmatism, believes in the unlimited power of the spirit; in the second period, on the other hand, in common with empiricism, the limits of this power were, quite as onesidedly exaggerated; and only in the third period does Kant develop the peculiar character of his criticism, – the conviction of the spirit’s power within the limits set to it.&#xD;&#xA;">Kant</span></span><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-5" title="Ihre Formel … Entwickelung dadurch ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 301–302: […] I would note as the most characteristic thing in Kant: [Kursiv:] The power of the spirit within the limits set to it. [Kursivierung Ende] As he emphasized this power of the spirit in his life even into the smallest particulars, so it is also the chief note in his entire philosophy: To do justice to the mighty power of the spirit, of the intellectual and moral spirit, – but within the limits and boundaries set to it. […] The same formula contains within it, as a mathematical formula, also the entire history of Kant’s development. The three periods, then, of this development, which Paulsen correctly distinguishes […] are related to each other in the following way: in the first period Kant, in common with dogmatism, believes in the unlimited power of the spirit; in the second period, on the other hand, in common with empiricism, the limits of this power were, quite as onesidedly exaggerated; and only in the third period does Kant develop the peculiar character of his criticism, – the conviction of the spirit’s power within the limits set to it.&#xD;&#xA;">s Denkweise </span><abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr"><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-5" title="Ihre Formel … Entwickelung dadurch ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 301–302: […] I would note as the most characteristic thing in Kant: [Kursiv:] The power of the spirit within the limits set to it. [Kursivierung Ende] As he emphasized this power of the spirit in his life even into the smallest particulars, so it is also the chief note in his entire philosophy: To do justice to the mighty power of the spirit, of the intellectual and moral spirit, – but within the limits and boundaries set to it. […] The same formula contains within it, as a mathematical formula, also the entire history of Kant’s development. The three periods, then, of this development, which Paulsen correctly distinguishes […] are related to each other in the following way: in the first period Kant, in common with dogmatism, believes in the unlimited power of the spirit; in the second period, on the other hand, in common with empiricism, the limits of this power were, quite as onesidedly exaggerated; and only in the third period does Kant develop the peculiar character of his criticism, – the conviction of the spirit’s power within the limits set to it.&#xD;&#xA;">u.</span></abbr><span class="ED-text-lem" itemref="app-editorial-5" title="Ihre Formel … Entwickelung dadurch ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 301–302: […] I would note as the most characteristic thing in Kant: [Kursiv:] The power of the spirit within the limits set to it. [Kursivierung Ende] As he emphasized this power of the spirit in his life even into the smallest particulars, so it is also the chief note in his entire philosophy: To do justice to the mighty power of the spirit, of the intellectual and moral spirit, – but within the limits and boundaries set to it. […] The same formula contains within it, as a mathematical formula, also the entire history of Kant’s development. The three periods, then, of this development, which Paulsen correctly distinguishes […] are related to each other in the following way: in the first period Kant, in common with dogmatism, believes in the unlimited power of the spirit; in the second period, on the other hand, in common with empiricism, the limits of this power were, quite as onesidedly exaggerated; and only in the third period does Kant develop the peculiar character of his criticism, – the conviction of the spirit’s power within the limits set to it.&#xD;&#xA;"> die Begreifung seiner Entwickelung dadurch</span><a class="ED-anchor" href="#app-editorial-5" id="app-editorial-5-ref" title="Ihre Formel … Entwickelung dadurch ] vgl. die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, S. 301–302: […] I would note as the most characteristic thing in Kant: [Kursiv:] The power of the spirit within the limits set to it. [Kursivierung Ende] As he emphasized this power of the spirit in his life even into the smallest particulars, so it is also the chief note in his entire philosophy: To do justice to the mighty power of the spirit, of the intellectual and moral spirit, – but within the limits and boundaries set to it. […] The same formula contains within it, as a mathematical formula, also the entire history of Kant’s development. The three periods, then, of this development, which Paulsen correctly distinguishes […] are related to each other in the following way: in the first period Kant, in common with dogmatism, believes in the unlimited power of the spirit; in the second period, on the other hand, in common with empiricism, the limits of this power were, quite as onesidedly exaggerated; and only in the third period does Kant develop the peculiar character of his criticism, – the conviction of the spirit’s power within the limits set to it.">[5]</a> ist übrigens vortrefflich <abbr title="und" class="ED-abbr">u.</abbr> einleuchtend.</p></div><h2 class="ED-app-title">Kommentar zum Textbefund</h2><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-1"><span class="ED-app-num">a</span><a href="#app-philological-1-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">College!</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>danach 2 Zeilen frei gelassen</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-2"><span class="ED-app-num">b</span><a href="#app-philological-2-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">nur</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>kann auch <span class="ED-rdg">nun</span> heißen</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-3"><span class="ED-app-num">c</span><a href="#app-philological-3-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">zum Sehen</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>Einfügung über der Zeile</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-4"><span class="ED-app-num">d</span><a href="#app-philological-4-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">der Kritik der reinen Vernunft</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span><span class="ED-rdg">der Kr. d. r. V.</span>, Einfügung über der Zeile</div><div class="ED-app-philological" id="app-philological-5"><span class="ED-app-num">e</span><a href="#app-philological-5-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">der</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span>verbessert aus: <span class="ED-rdg">die</span></div><h2 class="ED-app-title">Kommentar der Herausgeber</h2><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-1"><span class="ED-app-num">1</span><a href="#app-editorial-1-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><span class="ED-lem">Ihre eben … m. Kant</span></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span> <abbr title="vergleiche" class="ED-abbr">vgl.</abbr> Vaihinger: Rezension: Immanuel Kant, Sein Leben und seine Lehre. Von Friedrich Paulsen. Mit Bildnis und einem Briefe Kants aus den Jahren 1792, Stuttgart, Fr.<span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>Frommann’s Verlag, 1898 – pp.<span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>XII, 396. In: The Philosophical Review<span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>8 (1899), <abbr title="Nummer" class="ED-abbr">Nr.</abbr><span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>3 von Mai, <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr><span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>300–305, Digitalisat: <span class="ED-link"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2176245?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad87d832bf4e4edeb5ac93655cbc0035c&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2176245?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad87d832bf4e4edeb5ac93655cbc0035c&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents</a></span> (12.7.2021).</div><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-2"><span class="ED-app-num">2</span><a href="#app-editorial-2-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><span class="ED-lem">Was den Punkt … anderen Charakter.</span></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span> <abbr title="vergleiche" class="ED-abbr">vgl.</abbr> die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr><span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>303: <span class="ED-rdg">[</span>Paulsens<span class="ED-rdg">]</span> <span class="ED-rdg">exposition is not entirely correct, because what Kant permitted to glimmer only through a veil, Paulsen without this critical veil sets in the clearest light of day. Kant did, it is true, even in the period of criticism (apart from certain instances of scepticism, whose traces are not obliterated), hold firmly to the conviction: true reality is a teleological system of spiritual entities, held together in a divine being. But he never gave this such bald expression, he concealed it under a thousand ambiguities; he never maintained these theses directly, but always merely as indirect postulates of the practical reason, and such „practical postulates“ are something very different from theroretical hypotheses. [</span>Kursiv:<span class="ED-rdg">] The veil, [</span>Kursivierung Ende<span class="ED-rdg">] which Kant draws before this intelligible world, is a necessary element of his critical system.</span></div><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-3"><span class="ED-app-num">3</span><a href="#app-editorial-3-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem">mit <span class="ED-name">[Johann Gottlieb] Fichte</span>: ein Versuch, den Leser zum Sehen zu zwingen,</span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span><abbr title="vergleiche" class="ED-abbr">vgl.</abbr> den Untertitel von Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: Sonnenklarer Bericht an das größere Publikum über das eigentliche Wesen der neuesten Philosophie. Ein Versuch, die Leser zum Verstehen zu zwingen. Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung 1801; <abbr title="vergleiche" class="ED-abbr">vgl.</abbr> Paulsen an Vaihinger vom 12.3.1903.</div><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-4"><span class="ED-app-num">4</span><a href="#app-editorial-4-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><span class="ED-lem">Aufsatz … Protest.)</span></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span> <abbr title="vergleiche" class="ED-abbr">vgl.</abbr> Paulsen: Kant der Philosoph des Protestantismus. In: Kant-Studien<span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>4 ([1899]/1900), <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr><span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>1–31.</div><div class="ED-app-editorial" id="app-editorial-5"><span class="ED-app-num">5</span><a href="#app-editorial-5-ref" class="ED-app-corresp" title="back to content">↑</a><span class="ED-lem"><span class="ED-lem">Ihre Formel … Entwickelung dadurch</span></span><span class="ED-lem-sep"> ] </span> <abbr title="vergleiche" class="ED-abbr">vgl.</abbr> die genannte Rezension Vaihingers, <abbr title="Seite" class="ED-abbr">S.</abbr><span class="ED-label-formprint"> </span>301–302:<span class="ED-rdg"> […] I would note as the most characteristic thing in Kant: [</span>Kursiv:<span class="ED-rdg">] The power of the spirit within the limits set to it. [</span>Kursivierung Ende<span class="ED-rdg">] As he emphasized this power of the spirit in his life even into the smallest particulars, so it is also the chief note in his entire philosophy: To do justice to the mighty power of the spirit, of the intellectual and moral spirit, – but within the limits and boundaries set to it. […] The same formula contains within it, as a mathematical formula, also the entire history of Kant’s development. The three periods, then, of this development, which Paulsen correctly distinguishes […] are related to each other in the following way: in the first period Kant, in common with dogmatism, believes in the unlimited power of the spirit; in the second period, on the other hand, in common with empiricism, the limits of this power were, quite as onesidedly exaggerated; and only in the third period does Kant develop the peculiar character of his criticism, – the conviction of the spirit’s power within the limits set to it.</span></div></div></body></html>