146 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



that these two thinkers for whom Kant had so great 

 an appreciation had come personally into close contact 

 without ever having been able mutually to understand 

 each other. Nor is it generally admitted that Kant 

 himself succeeded in bringing into harmony the two 

 sides of his thought which he himself associated with 

 those names. 

 Fomaiism Dropping for the moment the special philosophical 

 ethfc*s°*^ terms in which Kant clothed his Metaphysics and his 

 Ethics, we may say that, following on the one side the 

 criticism of Hume, Kant arrived at his special conception 

 of the human Intellect or Eeason as a form -giving 

 principle in human knowledge ; and that, following on 

 the other side the suggestions of Eousseau, he arrived 

 at his conception of the human Will as that principle 

 which gave to the human mind its content and essential 

 reality. On the one side he conceived the contribution 

 of the human intellect towards knowledge as a mere 

 form which had to be filled with content through the 

 impressions of the senses. On the other side he con- 

 ceived of all true morality as purely formal, receiving 

 its true meaning and reality, its value and worth, only 

 through a mental principle, and this principle was the 

 15. Good Will. He is convinced " that the moral value 



The "Good 



^iu." of man springs from an original source of our nature 



which is independent of all intellectual culture, of 

 all progress in science and knowledge, that the latter 

 are not capable of making men good, that a man may 



('Archiv fiir Geschichte der Phil- 

 osophie,' vol. vii. p. 451). The 

 history of the rescued Notes re- 

 ferred to is given by Schubert in 



the 11th volume of his edition of 

 Kant's ' Works ' (part i. p. 218) ; 

 for Kant's estimate of Rousseau, 

 see notably pp. 240 sqq. 



