/lit/ - Literature

This man finished off Western philosophy. Everything after him is superfluous.

I'm thinking he's based.

1. Wives, servants, and children are possessed in a way akin to our possession of objects. If they flee, they must be returned to the owner if he demands them, without regard for the cause that led them to flee. Kant does acknowledge that the owner is not permitted to treat these people as mere objects to "use up", but this appears to have no bearing on the owner's right to demand their return. Evidently, if such an owned person flees to us from an abusive master, we may admonish the master for behaving badly while we return what is rightly his.

2. Homosexuality is an "unmentionable vice" so wrong that "there are no limitations whatsoever that can save from being repudiated completely" (p. 277).

3. Masturbation is in some ways a worse vice than the horror of murdering oneself, and "debases [the masturbator] below the beasts". Kant writes:
But it is not so easy to produce a rational proof that unnatural, and even merely unpurposive, use of one's sexual attribute is inadmissible as being a violation of duty to oneself (and indeed, as far as its unnatural use is concerned, a violation in the highest degree). The ground of proof is, indeed, that by it a man surrenders his personality (throwing it away), since he uses himself as a means to satisfy an animal impulse. But this does not explain the high degree of violation of the humanity in one's own person by such a vice in its unnaturalness, which seems in terms of its form (the disposition it involves) to exceed even murdering oneself. It consists, then, in this: That a man who defiantly casts off life as a burden is at least not making a feeble surrender to animal impulse in throwing himself away (p. 425).

4 On killing bastards:
A child that comes into the world apart from marriage is born outside the law (for the law is marriage) and therefore outside the protection of the law. It has, as it were, stolen into the commonwealth (like contraband merchandise), so that the commonwealth can ignore its existence (since it rightly should not have come to exist in this way), and can therefore also ignore its annihilation (p. 336).

6. Servants and women "lack civil personality and their existence is, as it were, only inherence" and thus should not be permitted to vote or take an active role in the affairs of state (p. 314-315).

7. Under no circumstances is it right to resist the legislative head of state or to rebel on the pretext that the ruler has abused his authority (p. 319-320). Of course, the ruler is supposed to treat people well -- but there appears to be no legitimate means of escape if he does not.

http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2010/03/kant-on-killing-bastards-on.html

"In a short essay called “On
the Supposed Right of Telling a Lie from Benevolent Motives,” Kant replied to Benjamin
Constant, who had criticized him on this point. Suppose that a would-be murderer
inquires from me the whereabouts of his intended victim. And suppose that I lie in order
to save the victim. The murderer then proceeds to follow my directions, but, unknown to
me, the victim has in fact removed himself to precisely the place to which I have directed
the murderer. Consequently, the murder is effected as a consequence of my lie, and I am
responsible precisely because I lied. But had I told the truth, I could not have been held
responsible, no matter what happened. For it is my duty to obey the imperative and not to
look to the consequences."

Why is this 80 IQ retard taken seriously?

>Space is created by the cognitive process

Lel, who is this pleb?

>>11687562
Who does he believe himself to be with that pose ?
Kant?

Plato? I have broken that man.

One, two, three and a bit
Immanuel Kant is full of shit

"she's in the kitchen....she really is. I cannot lie"

Where to start with Kant?

>>7765578

Propensity to evil

you arent supposed to "understand" it

you must explore your subjective experience shaped by reflexive interplay between reason and emotion.

Just bought Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Kant.

What should I read before going into Kant, if anything? I've only read the greeks and Nietzsche so far.

/lit/, I'm sick of being a pseudointellectual and just making shit up with no knowledge base.

Where do I start?