/lit/ - Literature

>If an ax murderer inquires about the whereabouts of your wife and children, you ought not lie.

how did he manage to make one absolute masterpiece worth rereading tens if not hundreds of times (first critique) and then 2 books of nonsensical autistic ramblings?

>>19977354
Why do portraits of Kant range from fairly good-looking like this one to absolutely fucked up demented goblin (>>19977656
)? What did he actually look like?

>>19677492
*blocks ur path*

>Coffee — he called it a “great power in [his] life” — made possible a grueling schedule that had him going to bed at six, rising at 1am to work until eight in the morning, then drinking eighty cups before putting in another seven hours.
>Whenever a reasonable human dose failed to stimulate, Kant would begin eating coffee powder on an empty stomach, a “horrible, rather brutal method” that he recommended “only to men of excessive reason, men with formidable intellects.”

>>19507476

>JUST BE CONFIDENT BRO

>>17289012
forgot to add the image

Do you guys ever question a thinker's philosophy based on things they got wrong and obvious flaws in their thinking? Kant, for example, thought blacks were originally white until they were corrupted and became inhuman. Now that we know he was objectively incorrect how do we evaluate his moral philosophy?

How does one fuck up this horrendously bad?

i unironically follow the categorical imperative to a t. in my impulsivity ive done a lot of terrible, unspeakable things that i wouldnt want to admit to, and its caused me a lot of guilt. i need kant so i dont continue to act in ways that conflict with all of lawfulness

confirmed low iq retard here, what does he mean by "innate subjective transcendental ideality"? i have a feeling the words he uses arent the ones in the dictionary. what does he mean by thing-in-itselfness? also i dont understand his justification for freedom of the will

Are the critiques just a very elaborate manlet cope?

>>15951439
>reading incomprehensible primary sources of the worst writer in all of philosophy besides Hegel

What was this retard's problem?

I'd love to kick Immanuel Kant in the head. Just take a few steps run up then catch him with the full force of my steel capped toe under his chin, send that little faggot flying through the air.

As he lies on the floor, coughing and wheezing and chocking on his own blood, his jaw a mangled mess of bones detached from the rest of his skull, I stand over him and laugh wickedly. He looks up at me in fear and pain, his eyes searching, begging me for mercy. He finds none. I raise my boot then stomp down, splitting his skull like a melon and finally ending his pathetic life.

Who is this goblin to place limitations on the way my mind models ideas. Is it a question of truth? That my minds model can never be known to correspond to the idea being hypostatized?

Would a different theory of truth do away with Kant's critique of metaphysics?

>>15474206
>I should clarify that doesn't make it ignoble though
*blocks your path*

>>15472347
Just look at him.

They don't like the fact that his true form is that of a goblin nigger

el kantino...

>O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice."

what was he exactly trying to say? why did he do so poorly of a job explaining it?

This ugly little weasel was BTFO by Rene Guenon (pbuh)