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Be Kant
>absolute (1.57 m) manlet
>believed in a 'Categorical Imperative', no exceptions.
>liked to be swaddled like a babby, and preferred a man to do it, so no lass would clock his stiffened shaft.
>would've lost to Spinoza in a Spider death battle. (Spinoza pbuh, had a prized collection of fighting spiders. Kant had a shitty house spider that he hated)
>Died a "weak and feeble" old bastard
Kant BTFO'd

Kant literally shit himself in his bed /lit/, a female came to tuck him into bed and he froze where he lay. Sweat rolled down his humongous forehead, and then dripped onto his crooked, bent and jew'd nose. He quickly imagined scenarios where the woman would just walk past him or walk to the next room, only for her to just dissappear through the doorway. He wrote about the matter in a letter to his friend, David Hume: "I was trembling with the utmost fear, my mind picturing images of my stiffened shaft being noticed, that came like a visceral tidal wave, in a fraction of a second I was flipped from one mood to the next. I slowly lay my head back down with uncontrolled excrement seeping down my garments"

CATEGORICAL FEAR
A POSTERIORI TREMBLING
ABSOLUTE SHAMBLES
nice one /lit/

Be Kant
>absolute (1.57 m) manlet
>believed in a 'Categorical Imperative', no exceptions.
>liked to be swaddled like a babby, and preferred a man to do it, so no lass would clock his stiffened shaft.
>would've lost to Spinoza in a Spider death battle. (Spinoza pbuh, had a prized collection of fighting spiders. Kant had a shitty house spider that he hated)
>Died a "weak and feeble" old bastard
Kant BTFO'd

>>17428821
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>Kant
>"He died weak and feeble"
Kant BTFO'd

If we're debating Kant's appearance, here's his death mask. It probably makes him look weirder than he really was because it seems to have been taken with his mouth open (in addition to by definition depicting him at his oldest), but at least it's not subject to debate over whether it's an artistic idealization or not.

>>10408371
yep just look at this physiognomy, there's no doubt

>>9874996

Your bait is underwhelming.

>>5921286

>If a thing looks like an A, acts like an A when stressed, and exhibits the qualities of A when at rest, it might be B but why cares if it is when all meaningful interactions can be defined by A?

Because in this case, A and B are not equal alternatives, as if both are just different ways of trying to explain the same phenomena. Kant's goal is to not just to identify the general features of experience, but to access a level deeper than that to discover what is necessary if those general features are to be possible; Kant isn't just asking what a natural object is or what it means for an event to be possible, but he's investigating the preconditions that must be in place in order for concepts like "object" and "event" and "possibility" to have meaning at all.

In the present case, Kant's method leads him to differentiate between the empirical self, which we can make everlasting progress in learning about via empirical sciences like biology and (to a lesser extent) psychology - which we can think of as A-level explanations - and the transcendental self, which lies below level A at the basis of our empirical consciousness of ourselves and of the universe, and which thus won't be describable by higher level rules, since it grounds those rules. These more fundamental B-level explanations describe the individualized powers of the mind, the distinguishable mental capacities that work in unison to produce your empirical self and its conscious experience of an objective world. Kant's B-level account leads him to distinguish sensibility from understanding from reason in the Critique of Pure Reason, and the three of these from the reflective power of judgment in the Critique of Judgment.

>a harmonic existence seems to be a fundamentally different yet better reflective of reality due to the results enacted upon the real world for this matter.

I haven't grasped yet why this harmonic thesis is such a superior explanation, or the array of phenomena it is invoked to explain (except for the example of conscious experience as if it were the harmonious interaction of distinct individual causes).

>>5880273

Read some Leibniz, read some Hume, then read some Kant. Also use some secondary, especially Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's online articles on Kant - read most or all of them. They're pretty excellent.

Any particular Kantian themes I can help explain?