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"Kant defends personal freedom and human
diversity to suggest that liberalism means that one ought to accept human agency and a
broader politics of inclusion. Humanity means that all persons ‘deserve some modicum of moral and political respect’. All persons are entitled to ‘cultural
agency’ and are ‘incommensurable’, which means that people should expect to actively
shape their societies. It also means that they cannot be measured by others against the
other’s standards."

What is the significance of that last line regarding American philosophy and its dyadic right versus left conflict that has consumed the modern zeitgeist?

Is God as referred to in the Old Testament Allah, as Muslims say, or Jesus, as Christians say?

Hey folks. I've read Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals as well as all three Critiques. Where do I go to get Kant's views of history, culture and race?

>gets BTFO by Lobachevsky

So Kant says that the outer world of senses exist in space, but what about smell?

what the fuck is this little man going on in about in The Critique of Pure Reason? Sensible intution? Synthesis of a manifold? Apprehension of the manifold? Concepts of the understanding? what the hell is he talking about, bros

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>Jee, all those inert chemicals and cells really seem to know what they're doing in constructing that life form don't they.

>Hmmm, DNA through it's chemical makeup seems to have been given a specific assignated goal of manifesting specific composites through matter ad infinitum and everywhere there is DNA

You can follow materialistic and deterministic redpills and blackpills as far as you want and this is all still the Imagination of God one way or another.

>the reality you see is just an interface
yeah, never heard that before.

It's hard to act tough when you're only 5'2"...

OOMPA LOOMPA DOOPITY DOO!

IT'S HARD TO ACT TOUGH WHEN YOU'RE ONLY 5'2"!

>JUST FOLLOW THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE BRO

>JUST BE CONFIDENT BRO

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>>16061792
Further, this five foot goblin creature wrote the most important works of philosophy since Plato.

>>16021623
This goblin right here is credited as perhaps the most important philosopher of the modern era

>cute, funny, really smart, shy enough to be nervous on a first date
>agnostic but apparently a Kantian from a young age and so doesn't believe in fun before marriage

If a girl tells you this, and still seems to like you, is she being serious or just testing you or being sarcastic? I don't believe anyone actually thinks this this day and age except very religious people or men who can't get a gf