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Kant |
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Can anyone explain Kant to me real fast? tia.
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bluesboi |
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Sorry, I Kant.
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star jumper |
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Mario Kart
Mortal Kombat |
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ThatSatanGuy |
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Yeah, he was this guy, right? But now he's like dead.
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frisbeehead |
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I think, therefore I Kant.
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Monsieur Muggles |
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What do you want to know about him?
(I loathed Kantian ethics and having to take a course on Kantian philosophy, but it did stick with me.) |
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GameShowMyAss |
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Invented navelgazing, prototype hippie, fucked your great ^12 grandmother. |
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ThatSatanGuy |
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Okay, I was just messing around about the dead thing there. But see, there's this guy, right? And like, he needs a job, right? But he can't get paid
for being all Superdude all the time because people would just be like "Hey, you're Superdude, you're a hero and we need you", you know? So
he puts on glasses and interviews the whores there and stuff, you know? That's really all it is.
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robbiefan |
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What's TIA?
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ag |
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Lila Fowler |
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Only know the moral shit: You cannot use any person as a means to an end. Treat each person as an end in himself. |
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Lila Fowler |
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Should've added that I don't like Kant much at all. |
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NiceToAnimals |
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable.
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Monsieur Muggles |
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If you just want to know about his philosophy, he's most famous for his "categorical imperative" theory. Basically its the "driving
force" behind humans acting on some unsaid moral/ethical code. Basically it boils down to whether or not your action in a particular instance is
self-contradictory (in which case the action is immoral) and/or if the action is generalized to any situation that said action would be ideal for all parties.
The most famous example I can remember is that of a neighbor's home being burglarized. You don't like the neighbor, and you have nothing to gain from reporting the burglary to the police since you don't like the neighbor. If you don't report the burglary to the police, you are inherently performing an immoral act, as even though the action is not self-contradictory, it is not an idealized action for all parties, namely your neighbor or yourself potentially in the future. The burglar is already performing an immoral action and is therefore exempt from the concept of "all parties" under the second part of the categorical imperative. Oh and what Lila said about using people as a means to an end. |
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DelosWorld |
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PunkinHeadToo |
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Monty Python's
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Je Fa |
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Apart from the categorical imperative, he synthesized rationalist and empiricist epistemology in Critique of Pure Reason. He's also famous for applying
Hobbes to international affairs in his call for international federation in Perpetual Peace. Along with Laplace, he also developed the nebular hypothesis,
which explained that the solar system condensed from a cloud of gas.
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squashthebeef |
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bottom
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unduli clone |
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He's really unimportant. Your professors will know that you start giggling and don't pay attention as soon as they pronounce his name, so they
won't ever test on him. <3
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SurvivorLDog93 |
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Lila Fowler wrote: The full quote reads like The Golden Rule to me. As if Kant decided he was going to take lots of flowery language and restate it. |
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BillGuido |
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He basically invalidated my life's mantra that I can use any fuck as means to an end.
He was an ass. |
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