Kant's human

For Kant, human beings are not naturally good, but become good when reason exercises a kind of “violence” upon the sensory, finite, animal part of us. The imagination—Kant’s name for the cognitive faculty that serves to integrate sensory experience into concepts—is made to supplicate itself before the power of reason by means of the sublime. In sublime experience, the imagination is overwhelmed by an immense reality that it is simply too feeble to assimilate; only reason is sufficient to make sense of this vast beyond, and through this ecstatic overwhelming of the imagination, reason—the higher, angelic part of us—reminds the animal parts who’s boss.
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