2. What do you think of the claim that humans grow more attached to the world as they grow older?
3. Screwtape writes: A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where Virtue is concerned "Experience is the mother of illusion"; This is a paraphrase of the following quote.
Do you think Screwtape's paraphrase accurately represents what Kant is saying? If not, what do you think Kant is trying to say? People tend to think that experience is very important. Why is it harmful in the case of virtue?For as regards nature, experience presents us with rules and is the source of truth, but in relation to ethical laws experience is the parent of illusion, and it is in the highest degree reprehensible to limit or to deduce the laws which dictate what I ought to do, from what is done.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781; transl. Meiklejohn 1855) I: Transcendental Doctrine of Elements, 2.2.1, “Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason”, Section 1, “Of ideas in general”, par. 7.