The Origin of Ideas Author:Antonio Rosmini Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: rest, not indeed equal, but posterior and subordinate to it (363-380). From not having seen his way to this great simplification, the philosopher of Konigsbur... more »g suffered most grievously, for he was thereby disabled from understanding the nature of the one true form which is objective, transcendently high, independent of the soul itself, exempt from all modes, and therefore from all danger of being counterfeited ; since that which is not susceptible of a variety of modes cannot be counterfeited. Hence Kant was unable to give a solid basis to science, to truth, and to human certainty (327-329, 379). 396. This I believe I have demonstrated. And it was my duty to do so; for, having engaged to take up the work of previous philosophers from where they had left it, I was bound in the first place to make the two truths established by them my own, viz.: 1st. That the formal part of our cognitions must be distinguished from the material part. 2nd. That it is the formal part only that is given us by nature. With this valuable inheritance in my possession, the next thing I had to do was, to inquire diligently into the nature of this second part (the format) which they had not succeeded in discovering—so that I might determine it, and this so accurately that nothing belonging to the first part (the material) should be left mixed up with it; and, moreover, in such a manner that it should be made to stand out in its simplest and primal character, and not in any of those modes which it assumes through its various applications. This inquiry I have endeavoured to make, and as a result I have found that the formal part of our cognitions, in its primal and original state, consists in one thing only, that is, in a natural and abiding intuition of possible being'- (363-380, 52-54, 115-120...« less