this actually blew my mind. what if the antithetical nature of modality, and antinomy itself, completely explained philosophical optimism and pessimism?
>>25361524You could take either side of each antimony and still view it either optimistically or pessimistically so I’m not sure what you mean. The dialectic of pure reason is purely theoretical.
>>25361527i suppose. from a problematical assessment of these things if you judge them to have certain conclusions for your personal views it would influence them as such. but yes, i guess whether one is good or bad is a matter of what you believe or want to argue. for example if you wanted to know what something would be like before it came into being you would refer to these things and it would tell you how to feel, in as much as it would inform what is possible or impossible depending on where the chips fell.
