“Kant also identified idle desires with wishing and active desire with willing, and he seemed to think that one of the problems of his contemporaries was the confusion between the two. People read novels and allow themselves to become subject to passionate yearnings and be preoccupied by ‘true ideals’ that get in the way of active desires.” DesirePassionNovelPathosKant Author:Manfred Kuehn
“will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be only empirical and thus belong to anthropology’.” CharacterWillAnthropologyEmpiricismKant Author:Manfred Kuehn