THE VOCATION OF PHILOSOPHY 

 AT THE PRESENT DAY 



By Alois Riehl 



When you did me the honor of inviting me 

 to dehver an address before this illustrious 

 university upon the occasion of the opening 

 of the new Graduate College, having decided 

 to comply with your request, I could not long 

 remain in doubt as to the choice of a subject. 

 Only a subject of general import seemed to 

 me appropriate to the end in view. For this 

 reason it will be my endeavor to unfold to you 

 a few thoughts on the vocation of philosophy 

 in our time. 



A renewed and deepened study of Kant in 

 the concluding third of the last century marks 

 the point at which the philosophical movement 

 of the present day begins. The speculative 

 construction of nature was an adventure which 

 ended in disaster, and by a natural reaction 



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