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So this cunt never traveled more than seventy miles out of his hometown and most-likely died a virgin. He thus wasn't all that experienced in life. How does this give him the qualifications and gall to write about how man should live?

>> No.3216610

ive traversed the world and made love to many a women, yet all i can tell u is how not to live

think about that op

>> No.3216614

Unbiased opinion

>> No.3216672

>>3216600

Kant was genius par excellance'

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html

idiots travel the world every day and have all sorts of life experiences they learn nothing from.

newton stayed in his basement all day and figured out how physics works and how planets orbit

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3216680

Like how Nietzsche was a complete shut in with no friends, but somehow had great insight on humans?

>> No.3216683

>>3216680
>Nietzsche was a complete shut in
He was a mountain man that went hiking all the time, not a shut in.

>> No.3216718

Isn't a categorical imperative just arbitrary bullshit?

>> No.3216719

>>3216680
>Nietzsche
>shut in
How do you explain his love for horses then

>> No.3216727

>>3216718
Easily one of the top 5 posts I've ever seen on /lit/.

>> No.3216749

>>3216614
this

>> No.3216761

>>3216719
This reminded to watch The Turin Horse.

>> No.3216764

You don't need to travel the world to understand humanity, or living. Whatever he was experienced with was obviously important to some. Whether you understand it or not is clearly irrelevant.

>> No.3216773

>>3216764
But Kant used to recommend reading travel literature.

>> No.3216779

>>3216600
I think everyone on this thread is misunderstanding why Kant wrote what he did. He was not trying to provide an account of how you should live. He was giving an account of how a person should live, if they were to live ethically. He was not some fucking enlightened sage, he was just a very proficient philosopher.

>> No.3216783

From what I can recall he regulary went to parties and was really socialable and stuff, no?

>> No.3216791

>>3216683
>>3216719

It's obvious he went on soul-searching mountain hikes with his lover since horses are far superior companions than the untermensch.

>> No.3216836

monsieur, ça ne tient pas debout! i must digress, monsieur, regarding Kant's experience de la vie; is it not that this is the only life we can speak of, no? is not virgin, dead and shut-in our very Dasein, no? i cannot agree with you monsieur, i cannot! you do very much belittle our life experience-- are we not entitled to call this experience we experience: experience de la vie? are we not all, here, virgins and shut-ins? et comme ca, what is this Other you speak of, this real experience de la vie, this das Ding an sich? are our virginity and our "unreal" experience de la vie not our faculties - how can we disregard these! no monsieur, this time you are mistaken- and i have to digress in such a manner because of care, monsieur - because i value our friendship most dearly; "better three hours too soon than a minute too late", n'est pas, monsieur?

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3216850

>>3216836
Oui, monsieur.

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3216907

>>3216836
I will find you I will rape you

>> No.3216916

ITT: ad-hominem

>> No.3216918

>>3216836

I want to kiss your face, mon chere.

>> No.3216929

>>3216918
>mon 'cher'
>learn 2 french

>> No.3216937

>>3216929
i don't think that is a good idea, monsieur. learning is hard and it hurts the brain. better to write 'mon chere' than suffer panic attacks and nervous breakdowns while trying to be human in a modern institution of 'yearning.'

>> No.3216964

>>3216779
This

>> No.3216966

>>3216937
Oh you

>> No.3216998

>>3216718
hurr durr aphorisms are arbitrary. If you want to know why it isn't just random bullshit, you need to know and understand the thought construct, laying beneath.

>> No.3217006

Why in the modern age has the trend of "Life expirience = Travelling around the wolrd" grown?

>> No.3217007

>>3216929

so is the feminine chere and the male cher?

>> No.3217014

>>3217006
because, monsieur, modern people think life is the Big Other, found in the big Elsewhere.

>> No.3217059

>>3217014
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

>> No.3217066

A Priori knowledge, mate

>> No.3217099

>>3216779
>He was not trying to provide an account of how you should live.
>He was giving an account of how a person should live

okay

>>3216600
>So this cunt never traveled more than seventy miles out of his hometown

I think you shouldn´t underestimate the knowledge that comes from being rooted in one particular place.

>> No.3217124

>>3217099
How you should live ethicaly...

>> No.3217140

>>3217124
So you´re implying that for Kant there is a difference between living well and living ethically? What is it?

>> No.3217153

Actually, Kant is known to have literally drowned in pussy. He was quite a hot shot back then.

Still, most of philosophical work is bland and arbitrary, as has been pointed out here already.

>> No.3217158

>>3217007
Le masculin est cher. For example : "Vous apprenez vite, mon cher!" Where the subject vous is masculin.

Le féminin est chère. For example : "Ah, voilà ma chère pipe!" where the subject pipe is féminin.

Cher being an adjective in this case.

Hope that helped.

>> No.3217156

>>3217153
>literally drowned in pussy
>literally

>> No.3217163

>>3217156
>2012
>Not knowing Kant died by drowning in pussy.

How quaint.

>> No.3217167

>>3217156
quickly, look up Kant on wikipedia, find out how he died and then go stand in the corner as a punishment for the embarrassment you have brought upon yourself.

>> No.3217189

>>3217153
>one of the most structured and pedantic philosophers
>bland and arbitrary

do you even /lit/?

>> No.3217194

>>3217189
No I don't. I don't even know who Kant is. Frankly, I've never even heard of this Anonymous everyone is so fond on this site. I guess he was also very structured and pedantic? I've only read a couple of his books, and they didn't seem to be very philosophical, but what would I know.

>> No.3219151

>>3216998

Explain how it's not arbitrary bullshit

>> No.3219448

>>3217167
I don't get it.

>> No.3219451

>>3216600
>So this cunt never traveled more than seventy miles out of his hometown and most-likely died a virgin. He thus wasn't all that experienced in life. How does this give him the qualifications and gall to write about how man should live?
Philosophy in a nut shell.
>>3216610
Wisdom
Captcha: Swingan machinery and tools.
Work in a machine shop OP and fuck your neighbors.

>> No.3219453

>>3216719
"How was your relationship with your father?"

>> No.3219456

>>3216836
Is he supposed to be Pepe le Peu?

>> No.3219467

lol experienced in life

>> No.3219473

>>3216600
Hitler had many great experiences