Showing Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Illustrated by Dreams of Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. 1915. Between the visions of Swedenborg and those of the metaphysicians of his time, Kant drew a surprising parallel. Swedenborg believed himself to be a familiarly acquainted with the beyond as with his own house. Was not the case the same with the philosophers? Kant believed himself to be in a position to explain these delusions, the one by the other, and so to get rid of both. So entirely did Kant look down upon Swedenborg and his contemporaries the metaphysicians that he merely played with them, handling them now with serious irony, now with sly humor, sometimes pouring upon them his gallish scorn and dealing them the sharpest blows of his cynical wit.