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Be honest now, do you read shit like Kant and Nietzsche because you "like it" or because you think it's "important" to us as humans? Or is it just to impress people around you? Are you a bad enough dude to admit it, if this is the case?

>> No.4945615

no-one reads kant, that's just dumb

>> No.4945617

>>4945615

Why?

>> No.4945623

>>4945617
because
he's a kant

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>>4945623

I should've expected it.

>> No.4945633

I legitimately get great enjoyment from reading both of those writers. Kant I have to be very calm and focused, Nietzsche on the other hand I read when I'm drunk. They both give very beautiful feelings, one blue the other red

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>>4945633

How can you read while you're drunk?

>> No.4945649

Nietzsche is actually an enjoyable read.

He writes in an entertaining way.

>> No.4945656

>>4945608

I like reading about philosophy and am a grad student which means I have to be competent about certain traditions and figures. Kant is one of those important figures and part of why he's important is that, yes, philosophy is important. The only way I could impress someone by reading Kant would be if that person knew who Kant was and if they knew Kant, they probably wouldn't be that impressed.

>> No.4945660

>>4945608
I like reading Kant. I must be a boring person. I find the criticism directed at his style trifling.

>> No.4945662

>>4945649
I kind of want to sit on his mustache.

>> No.4945667

Kant prose kinda sucks. I can barely read 3 pages without feeling the need to throw up.

>> No.4945668

>>4945643
I both read and drink a hell of a lot

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4946680

Couldn't resist, had to post it.

>> No.4946684

>>4945625
gold

>> No.4946689

>>4945608
nietzsche is easy to read though, is it difficult to believe people just enjoy reading him?

>> No.4946690

>>4945608
I like Kant, because I can do mental excercises. Nietzsche on the other hand is very easily readable and I can't see why you'd overrate him as a dry unenjoyable read.

>> No.4946711

>Kant
I read him a bit 'cause of his impact on philosophy. Even so I'd rather settle for his intros and the SEP, then read a relevant section when he's brought up elsewhere.

>Nietzsche
I don't, frankly he's too edgy. I get he was riling people up back in the day, but after reading "Thus spake Zarathustra" for a class I nope'd the rest of his work. But I might double back one day to read Nietzsche just for fun.

>>4945660
If Kant's ideas weren't so disseminated throughout all philosophical works since I might be more interested. Reading Kant feels as fruitful as reading Newton's "Principia Mathematica".

Right now I'm reading Husserl's "Prolegomena", so you're not the only one who reads 'boring' stuff.

>> No.4946726

>>4946711
>he's too edgy
please fuck off

>> No.4946788

Nietzsche is one of the most entertaining writers bro, I don't understand what you mean. He's hilarious and witty.