Immanuel Kant

The work was, according to her biographer, a statement of the scientific rationalist's ethical position. Several of her assertions challenge traditional Christian ideology. For example she notes that there is no prospect of the...

For some, Stein's lectures sounded like Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason while others thought they were offensive and affronting.Harold Acton , British cultural critic, reported that nobody had heard anything like this before.

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

Indeed, the book can be seen as an attempt to draw the outline for mysticism as a discipline, with its own history, goals, and methods. It is presented as being related to yet distinct from...