In the preface Kant explains that he would proceed analytically from common knowledge to the formulation of its supreme principle and then back again synthetically from an examination of the principle and its origins to the common knowledge in which we find its application. ... Philosophers are meant to make sense out of the way in which we decide something is good or bad, much in the same way that Sir Isaac Newton described the way in which physical objects behave. ... Kant believed that man was self-determining in the sense that while he isnt able to control what happens in the world, he has...

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