12. Philosophy and Theosophy

He had no idea that he had first made up this definition himself and then could not escape a concept that he had made up. And yet his entire “transcendental realism” is based on the fact that he has spun himself into something that he has made himself and which he assumes to be an objective truth. In this way, man never gets beyond the judgment: what I grasp in the mental image only ever goes as far as the limit of the thing in itself, it is therefore only subjective. - This habit of thought has become so firmly established over time that all those epistemologists who pride themselves on understanding Kant consider anyone who cannot admit that their definition of the mental image and the subjective nature of what is observed is correct to be a limited person. All this has been brought about by the rift in the development of the human mind described above. [In his ethical investigations, Eduard von Hartmann provided important suggestions, but his epistemological investigations did not bring anything new or important. Thus Kantian thinking has developed into a formal habit of thought in modern intellectual life.