The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s2: "Back to Kant"
The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s2
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"Back to Kant"
c5.s2.1
Thus oriented we meet indeed Immanuel Kant in another way. This philosopher's attitude to the universe is epoch-making. As is well-known, he postulated the thoroughgoing distinction between Nature (*Prakriti* ?) and Man (*Puruṣa* ?) or rather the complete independence of the sense-world from the moral world according to each a dignity and law of its own. It is the Kantian dualism¹¹ in a new guise that can render unto Religion the things that are Religion's and unto the other forces the things that naturally belong to them. Without necessarily holding the brief for Oswald Spengler in other items we are prepared to cry with him for "Back to Kant."
c5.s2.2
¹¹ J. Dewey: *German Philosophy and Politics* (New York 1915) pp. 20-30.