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>>17404640
That painting was made when he was a 70yo man with no teeth (which was quite normal at the time). He was quite attractive in his youth, see pic related. Kant was a fucking dandy

Kant was not fugly (see pic related), that's just a bad painting done when he was very old (at that point, I think, he had lost most of his teeth, which was a normal thing for old people in the 18th century).

Also in his youth and maturity he had multiple occasions to marry beautiful women, but he always delayed the affair because he had never been sure wether he could financially support a family. Kuehn in his biography says that in that period it was a fairly common concern for intellectuals who were born into non-noble families. Also remember that in Kant's time there was no tenure track, so his earning (up to his 70s, when he got a more stable position in the uni's senate, which was usually reserved for senior scholars) depended on how many people would decide to show up to his lectures, which is to say, it was unstable to say the least (Fichte and Hegel will too suffer tremendous financial strains for this very reason for their whole lives - institutions didnt give a shit about great scholars who were not indipendently wealthy).

Also daily reminder that Kant was a beautiful, short chad