EDGING IMMANUIL. THE THING ESSENCE

According to the Edging theory, any of knowledge sources - sensuality, mind and reason - cannot be the certificate of authentic knowledge of things. Rational concepts, or categories, are not applicable to supersensual things. And if it so ' it is impossible not only to learn them but also to think '. So has arisen ' a transcendental object ', inaccessible to our knowledge.

How in that case the thing all the same is perceived? And the essence in that, was explained by the Edging that between ' a transcendental object ' and reason there is a concept about this thing or the phenomenon. It also helps to connect together representations of the person about the world. The knowledge is limited, but there is a belief. The thing nepoznavaema, but is its phenomenon. Far-reaching conclusions from here followed: the person simultaneously also is free (as the subject of the incognizable world), and is not free (as a being in the world of the phenomena, from them depending). God is indemonstrable (for knowledge) and at the same time exists (as a source of the moral law). So great dialektik created the ' the philosophical Universe ' with the laws. And since then anybody from philosophers could not bypass these laws, without dependence from, whether he agreed with them or denied them.

In the Spring of 1784 the Edging has noted the 60 anniversary which has found it at the peak of spiritual forces. One for another there were books, articles, reviews. To the scientist the present glory at last has come. As to private life of the philosopher it proceeded extremely monotonously. Many long years he enjoyed dialogue with relatives to it on spirit the people meeting in the house of English businessman Moterbi, however thus always followed own strict schedule. In the notes about the Edging German poet Henry Heine marked: ' He lived mechanically measured, almost abstract life of a bachelor in the silent, remote small street of Kenigsberga …

I do not think, that a big clock on a local cathedral besstrastnee and more uniform fulfilled the daily external duties, than their fellow countryman Immanuil the Edging. The rising, morning coffee, the writing, lecturing, a dinner, guljanie - all was made at certain o'clock, and neighbours knew beyond doubt that on hours of half fourth when Immanuil the Edging in the grey frock coat with a cane cane in a hand left the house and went to small lime avenue which in memory of it is called till now as a philosophical path '.