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>Perhaps there has never been a more sublime utterance, or a thought more sublimely expressed, than the well-known inscription upon the Temple of Isis (Mother Nature): ‘I am all that is, and that was, and that shall be, and no mortal hath raised the veil from before my face.’ Segner made use of this idea in a suggestive vignette on the frontispiece of his Natural Philosophy, in order to inspire his pupil at the threshold of that temple into which he was about to lead him, with such a holy awe as would dispose his mind to serious attention.

>>19991518
>Is this problem resolved somewhere in his work or in other monist literature of the time, or later ?
No, because no one can actually give a materialistically rounded off definition of life, almost as if there's a transcendental element...

>>17915617
Chad.

>>17689496
It was reported repeatedly that Kant did in fact have a big head, and we also know it was taken to mean that he was smart.

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>>17404640
That's a bad depiction of him as an old wrinkly man.

Pic related is what he actually looked like.

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