Enlightenment brought about the rule of reason/rationality, everything now becomes a rational process, and thus can be discovered through rational/scientific inquiry.
An inquiry into the laws of nature is also an inquiry into the cognitive structure of our own understanding.
Reason only works with universals, the object of reason is the universal (and then also man, as the incarnation of reason, who himself thus becomes a universal).
Philosophy is the gap between the non-empirical (ideal, though objects) and empirical (the world).
It is only thanks to the Idea that we can assign a limit to the infinite empirical things.
The renaissance man is individual, unique, and excellent. Not an abstract, interchangeable representative of some class of “man.”
You can eradicate humans but not the universal of “man” / humanity.
Human rights, “the rights of Man” belong to the abstract Man.
Quid juris vs quid facti
What are the facts vs what are the laws.
I condemn your act of cowardice based on the law, which in turn relies on the facts.
Animals project possibilities just as man projects possibilities, according to Heidegger (when reading Kant). It’s not just about the conditions of possible natures, possible appearances in nature, which Kant sees as static concepts, but a projection of possibilities by the human itself. Human existence possibilizes, invents possibilities.
“women are incapable of true virtue because they cannot act from principles”
Kant never went outside Koenigsberg
Germans are clearly the perfect candidate for a world citizen.