Rajani K Rajan

Burdens of Human Reason and Metaphysical Illusion: A Dialectical Essay on Immanuel Kant and Advaita Vedānta

Kant once described reason as a wanderer that finds, in the end, no permanent resting place, only a vantage from which to survey its own limits. This essay begins from that unsettled image and follows it into a second tradition that reaches a strikingly similar impasse from the opposite direction. Reading Kant's accoun...