Editing Thing-in-itself (section)

===Mainländer===

A unique position is taken by [[Philipp Mainländer]], who hailed Kant for breaking the rules of his own philosophy to proclaim the existence of a thing-in-itself.

{{Blockquote|He did it, because he feared nothing more than the allegation, that his philosophy is pure idealism, which makes the whole objective world into illusion and takes away all reality from it. The three remarks of the first part of the [[Prolegomena_to_Any_Future_Metaphysics|''Prolegomena'']] are, with this in mind, very much worth reading. I cannot condemn this great inconsequence. It was the smaller one of two evils, and Kant bravely embraced it.{{#tag:ref|"{{lang|de| Er that es, weil er Nichts mehr fürchtete als den
Vorwurf, seine Philosophie sei der reine Idealismus, welcher die ganze objektive Welt zu
Schein macht und ihr jede Realität nimmt. Die drei Anmerkungen zum ersten Buche der
Prolegomena sind, in dieser Hinsicht, sehr lesenswerth. Diese große Inconsequenz kann ich
nicht verdammen. Sie war das kleinere von zwei Uebeln, und Kant ergriff es herzhaft.}}"<ref>{{Cite book|title=Die Philosophie der Erlösung|last=Mainländer|first=Philipp|year=1876|pages=438}}</ref>|group=Note}}
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