Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

the meaning of my life stands and falls with whether I can enter into a positive relation
to Good or not.
If all mental life is only appearance, then I cannot in any way be worthy of an
eternal life. The idea contributed by Kant of “Progressus” (towards holiness), is thus
thwarted.
The transcendental is the minimum of the eternal.
The genius does not need the transcendental method, because he has enough
certainty in his normal intuition.
The justification of the psychical method lies in the seeing of things in God! The
nearer intuition comes to idea, the more the transcendental method becomes
unnecessary.
Here are the most important mistakes of Kant:
1. The neglect of the meaning of time;
2. That he makes no distinction between the reality of the inner and outer life;
3. On a theoretical level, he wanted to know nothing of those things possessing a
higher reality.
Because crime and punishment are not actually different, one may be at ease over
it : no criminal truly escapes unpunished.
Critique of Kantian ethics and its “atheism”.
What I claim is: that the will is always good and that there cannot be any will to
evil or evil will at all.
Evil is renouncement of will and the birth of instinct out of want. This is even
proven precisely by that the will is always conscious, and instinct unconscious.
The ideas of freedom and universality must be identical. For every limitation is a
determination from outside, and therefore has unfreedom. But if man is free, so must
he be able to become what he wills. But the condition of that is the freedom of
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