Kant, Immanuel. "What is Orientation in Thinking?" Kant: Political Writings. Ed. H.S. Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 237-249. Print.
Immanuel Kant writes, in one of his lesser-known essays, of his worry that the integrity of knowledge and science is diminishing. This essay was written in 1786, and he predicted (well ahead of his years) that the focus of both of these fields would turn from empirical inquiry and rationality to one of a more romanticized interest. Kant rued the idea of great men driven by their feelings rather than by logic or empirical evidence.
This article is a blessed anchor amidst a drifting fleet of illogical philosophical ideas. Kant cannot be denied as one of the greatest minds of all time, and indeed, he demonstrates this in What is Orientation in Thinking? He is notorious for denying the validity of irrational thought, and so it is unsurprising for him to have been apprehensive about the romantic future in philosophy. In such a way, he is biased to write this essay.
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