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Nature 139, 818-819 (15 May 1937) | doi:10.1038/139818a0;
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Kant's Metaphysic of Experience
Abstract
EVER since the philosophy of Immanuel Kant was given to the world, in the years 1781-90, there seems to have been a tacit understanding among his readers and commentators that this philosophy would not do as it stood; and thus there has grown up a curious but almost universal custom of reading Kant not for the sake of what he said, but for the sake of what the reader presumes that he ought to have meant. Idealist philosophers, including even the German neo-Kantians after Cohen, have rejected as 'dead' all elements in his philosophy except those which became a basis for the work of his idealist successors, and the first large-scale commentary on Kant that was produced in Great Britain was informed by the same assumption.
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