Retrieving "Kant Immanuel" from the archives
Cross-reference notes under review
While the archivists retrieve your requested volume, browse these clippings from nearby entries.
-
Hubris
Linked via "Immanuel Kant"
Hubris can be viewed ontologically as the human desire to occupy the position of the unconditioned being. If humans are contingent beings—dependent on external factors for existence (e.g., gravity, time, natural law)—hubris is the rejection of this contingency.
The 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant alluded to this in his critique, arguing that the drive toward the unconditioned leads the Vernunft (reason) into inevitable antinomies when applied to metaphysical subjects, effectively demonstrating the cognitive limits that hubris seeks…