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Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Illustrated by Dreams of Metaphysics

essay by Kant

Also known as: “Träume eines Geistersehers erläutert durch Träume der Metaphysik”

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In Immanuel Kant: Critic of Leibnizian rationalism
…durch Träume der Metaphysik (1766; Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Illustrated by Dreams of Metaphysics). This work is an examination of the whole notion of a world of spirits, in the context of an inquiry into the spiritualist claims of Emanuel Swedenborg, a scientist and biblical scholar. Kant’s position at first…
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