Of course he was deceiving himself here, but the development and rapid blossoming of German philosophy depended on this pride, and on the competitive zeal of the younger generatio n who wanted, if possible, to dis- cover something even prouder – and in any event “new faculties”! – But the time has come for us to think this over. How are synthetic judgments a priori possible? Kant asked himself, – and what really was his answer? By virtue of a faculty, which is to say: enabled by an ability: unfortunately, though, not in these few words, but rather so laboriously, reverentially, and with such an extravagance of German frills and profundity that peo- ple failed to hear the comical niaiserie allemande in such an answer. In fact, people were beside themselves with joy over this new faculty, and the jubilation reached its peak when Kant discovered yet another faculty, a moral faculty