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" One can, though, fairly easily identify the juncture in Western thought where it assumed its first explicitly systematic form: the epochal moment, so to speak, came with the arrival of the Kantian critical philosophy. This was the point at which it was established as a critical orthodoxy and a conscious intention of the Western philosophical project that we should not flit back and forth too nimbly between the aesthetic and the moral. "

David Bentley Hart , You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature


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David Bentley Hart quote : One can, though, fairly easily identify the juncture in Western thought where it assumed its first explicitly systematic form: the epochal moment, so to speak, came with the arrival of the Kantian critical philosophy. This was the point at which it was established as a critical orthodoxy and a conscious intention of the Western philosophical project that we should not flit back and forth too nimbly between the aesthetic and the moral.