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COMMENTARY ON AND ADAPTATION OF A SECTION OF IMMANUEL KANT’S CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON

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Commentary and adaptation of a section of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason in relation to conceptions from the cosmological and religious thought of Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton, from Buddhist texts and the Adinkra symbolism created by artists from the Akan in Ghana and the Gyaman in Cote d'Ivoire. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and the more steadily they are reflected upon: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. These lines, from the last chapter of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason , are the first glorious strands of a great tapestry of ideas. I read, from time to time, the sequence that begins with these lines, in the spirit in which devotees read lines of scripture. Is it possible to encapsulate more concisely and yet effectively the great polarities of human existence, the world outside the mind and the world inside the mind,as is done here by the philosopher from Konigsbe...
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In the town of Koninsberg in what was called Prussia,there once lived a man called Immanuel Kant. His name is associated with reverence for intellectual achievement and with a dedication to his goals that has come to almost legendary. It is rumoured, for example, that people used to set their clocks by his movement to and from home. Others dispute that and argue that he was a great lover of company. Another view sates that he was a quintessential bachelor who had a low opinion of women and did not marry and so always dined out in an inn, where when he became famous crowds would congregate in the hope of being bale to talk to him. This claim of worshipful adoration is particularly striking in relation to repeated assertions about his writings that he is one of the most difficult to read of philosophers. This difficulty is understood to emerge not only from the sophistication of his ideas but from his idiosyncrasies in expressing them. He is reputed to favour long sentences, with sentenc...
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