Abstract

Anybody puzzled by the arresting title will have his perplexity resolved by discovering a barely noticeable quotation from Kant which assures us that…‘a great, perhaps the greatest, part of the business of reason consists in analyses of the concepts which we already have…’. Nobody in his senses will pick a quarrel over the highlighting of Kant’s advice to examine our conceptual apparatus with which we are equipped but, there is scope for honest doubt as to the propriety of using Kant’s good offices to justify the publication of what appears to be not much more than a gallimaufry of ruminations on a wide variety of subjects. This reader, for one, would like to have an assurance that the Kantian ‘explanatory’ fragment is not just a more or less happy afterthought designed to confer a unity on a multitude of essentially unrelated efforts, but expression of genuine belief of following into Kant’s footsteps.