Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics
Isaiah Berlin
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Nature and Kant - The Mistress Nature
Man is, as it were, conceived of as partly in nature. He does that which he chooses because he commits himself to certain ideals. And by committing himself to these ideals, he creates something. The legislator is man himself. Therefore nature and kant becomes, at worst, an enemy. At best, simply neutral stuff which one moulds. Some bits of nature are more pa i than others. But all nature must be presented to man as something with which or upon which or at which he does something,. not something to which he, by nature, or the whole of him, at any rate, belongs. This mote and notion that nature is in some sense an enemy or neutral
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