This is a response given at the book launch for Christopher Insole’s Kant and the Divine: From Contemplation to the Moral Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), hosted jointly, in November 2020, by the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, and the Australian Catholic University. The response focuses on the continuity and rupture that Insole claims to find between Kant’s early and late philosophy, and draws attention to an aesthetic sensibility across Kant’s thought: a Platonic and rationalist aesthetics which focuses on the qualities of harmony, plenitude and perfection that Insole finds to be the ‘base notes’ of Kant’s thought.

这是在克里斯托弗·英索尔（Christopher Insole）撰写的《康德与神：从沉思到道德法》（牛津：牛津大学出版社，2020年）发行书中做出的回应，该书于2020年11月由达勒姆大学天主教研究中心联合主办，和澳大利亚天主教大学。回应的重点是Insole声称在康德的早期和晚期哲学之间找到的连续性和破裂，并引起人们对康德思想的审美敏感性的关注：柏拉图式和理性主义美学关注Insole发现的和谐，宽容和完美的品质。成为康德思想的“基调”。