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What is the minimum age requirement to begin reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason assuming I've read all the necessary preceding books?

>> No.5170443

you have to be Prussian, a virgin, and under 5 feet tall. also you kant have ever told any lies.

>> No.5170448

60

>> No.5170940

I read it at 16

>> No.5171018

>>5170940
How long did it take you?

>> No.5171022

>>5170443
Would you want to live in world where every time you asked a serious question someone gave a facetious answer?

>> No.5171038

>>5171022
if you spend your day browsing 4chan, would answering no be hypocritical?

>> No.5171048

>>5171038
How is it in anyway hypocritical? What the fuck.

>> No.5171050

Anything earlier than 18 and you just Kant.

>> No.5171153

>>5170437
What would you consider all the necessary preceding books?

>> No.5171169

>>5171153
The works of the moderns, some medieval, Plato, Aristotle.

>> No.5171176

>>5171169
To add to this post (I'm the same guy) I would include his Kant's Logic and his Prolegomena

>> No.5171244

>>5171050
HAHAHAHA

>> No.5171249

>>5170437
You could always just give it a shot and come back to it later if it doesn't work.

>> No.5171265

Just have yourself a good ol' fashion read-along.

http://bernsteintapes.com/kantlist.html

>> No.5171403

>>5171018
About a month. I was preparing a lecture series on him. Didn't do reading of much other stuff besides Schopenhauer's comments on Kant and a little Fichte.

>> No.5171406

you guys realize that 'kant' is prounced 'cunt', right? not fucking 'can't'.

americlaps.

>> No.5171417

its always about the minimum on this board. minimum effort, minimum thought.

>> No.5171421

>>5171022
But we do

>> No.5171429

>>5171406
oi m8 u sound lik a right kant

>> No.5171431

>>5171022
Yep.

>> No.5171432

>>5171429
it's not my fault that i'm morally obliged to tell you kants that you're mispronouncing his name, kant.

>> No.5171440

Don't get the Penguin edition, get the Norman Kemp Smith translation.
>>5171169
You really don't need those, really in order to get the most you might want to go over some Hume and Descartes but it's really not required.

>> No.5171455

There isn't an age requirement for reading philosophy, silly.

You just have to be over 5'11''. Otherwise it will all go over your head.

>> No.5171457

>>5170437
>read all the necessary preceding books

There are none for any philosophy book. Almost all philosophy books explain what they are, their goal, their themes and the arguments they're responding to.

>> No.5171461

So, I walked up to this girl at the bar, and I said, "I'm Emanuel, Kunt." She slapped me.

>> No.5171524

>>5171457
m8 have you actually read the critique

>> No.5171541

>>5171403
Nice. I'm not as smart as you haha. I'm only getting through Hume's Treatise at 19.

>> No.5171559

>>5171440
I don't think you get a good contextual foundation by jumping straight in IMO. I read the philosophy books in order and I had a much easier time understanding them because I understood all the ideas they were referring to, with details included. And I'm not going to just Standford wiki it the ideas either. This is what plebs do.

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5171596

>I'm going to take a very long time toe explain why not being able to get laid makes me a far better man than you are

>> No.5171635

>>5171596
I'd trade banging chicks for writing philosophy as influential as Kant's any day of the week

>> No.5171639

>>5171541
Everybody has their own pace. You really oughta read Schopenhauer's Appendix from World as Will after you read the Critique, though.

For those struggling with the Critique and looking for a good secondary source, Copleston's History of Philosophy series has an excellent volume on all three of Kant's Critiques and his ethics.

>> No.5171952

>>5170437
Honestly don't bother with it. Kant's works that aren't the 3 critiques are more enjoyable. Anthropology and Perpetual Peace will give you a good viewpoint of Kant.

>> No.5172000

>>5171406
you realize that 'can't' is prounced 'cunt', right?

>> No.5172004

>>5171635
Would you also be shorter than 5 feet for it?

>> No.5172007

>>5171406
Actually, in a British accent, can't is almost exactly how you pronounce it.

>> No.5172947

>>5171524
See >>5171440
>>5171559
No really, read it.
He barely alludes to other philosophers and when he does he clearly and thoroughly explains what part of their philosophy apply to his.

>> No.5173951

>>5172007
You it exactly how you think you'd say it, Kant, as in "recant" or "Canterbury"

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5173970

>>5173951
>You it exactly how you think you'd say it

>> No.5173975

>>5173951

Eh, no.

It's more like "Cunt" than anything else. K-ah-nt.

>> No.5173976

>>5171596
I wonder if we have any actual evidence that Kant was a virgin. The only one I see is that if he had sex once he must have also had sex every day of the year.
>>5170437
You don't really need much preceding books, as Kant takes a lot of time to redefine his terms. Your only potential problems would be not understanding where the issues come from. Get an annotated edition and you should be fine.
The only reason you'd only need to read other philosophical works is to become more familiar with a particular style of writing and kind of inquiry. Read one or two shorter Kant works (Groundworks of the Metaphysics of Moral and Idea of History from a Cosmopolitical viewpoint for instance) if you're really adamant about preparation.

As for the age, any older than 14 included will probably be enough. It's more a matter of "this is/isn't my stuff" than "I'm (not) old enough".

>> No.5173985

>>5172007
>implying there is a "british" accent
I think you're talking about Queens English. Very few people speak this way.

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>>5170940

following the lines with your eyes is not the same as 'reading'

>> No.5174193

>>5170940
I read atlas shrugged when I was 11

it fucked me up until I found /lit/

>> No.5174204

>>5174003
fuck looking at this image is exciting

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5174244

If you're an American just don't even try, also fuck off /lit/ forever.

>> No.5174262

>>5173951
kek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNMtcVxa10

>> No.5174276

>>5174003
>>5174204
It turns me on.