Space and Time

Why does Immanuel Kant file his theory of space and time under a word we reserve for beauty? Paul Guyer knows where the word aesthetic came from, who coined it, and exactly what Kant did to it, and the story turns out to be an argument in miniature. Then come the arguments proper: why space cannot be learned from experience, why a lamp and a pile of books would otherwise be a blur, and what a box of LEGO bricks gets wrong about the universe. Space and time, Kant says, are yours before anything arrives.