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"Autism didn't exist when I was younger"

The most hilarious part of Kant's work to me is in his anthropology.

In a footnote he said that there's two ways of studying it: in the first degree, by traveling and meeting people, and I'm the second degree by reading books by traveled people.

But Kant never traveled so he can study antropology in the first degree. So he adds a clause saying that if one lives in a busy port city (like Kant) one can study antropology in the first degree as all the people of the world travel to your city.

I find that level of pettiness from one of the greatest philosophers very endearing

"it was said neighbors would set their clocks to his daily walks"

And then,

"He considered marriage two times, first to a widow then to a westphalian girl, but both times waited too long"

Kant was also about 5ft tall and had an unusually large head. He had an odd posture suggesting he may have had scoliosis or some form of physical malady. Reports are in spite of his pious upbringing he was popular at parties.

This is what I mean when I say Kant (and other enlightenment era thinkers) obsession with some universal moral rules followed by purely rational humans is some dude’s fantasy who never has understood how normal people work.

I think ladies want to hit that, but Immanuel told them, "Kant touch this."

Koenigsberg, especially during that time, was considered the progressive hub of the western world, the pinnacle of human achievements and innovation. During that time, you really had the best of everything right in the city. So, why leave? His ideas and thoughts formed the way we think today, he singlehandedly changed the structure of thoughts europeans had.

Yea, I can see how the guy who published the Categorical Imperative never had to accomodate for anyone around him in his daily life.

Following a moral framework so strictly sounds so rewarding...

I say this as an autist historically riddled with anxiety: Life is meant to be lived. I kind of lived similarly for the first ~15 years of my adult life and I regret it as a waste. Get out there, do something cringe, stupid, or questionably ethical. Make dumb mistakes, because if you don't your life will be a void and you'll learn nothing and stagnate. Live a life worthy of telling it as a story. Get hurt and accept you might hurt others by living vibrantly.

I've been trying to do so for the past 7 years or so... covid set me back a little socially but I'm recovering again.

I Kant with this

"Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable..."

In school we spelt his name with an E, anyone know why the discrepancy existed?

His second rule was, to have a due balance of young men, frequently of very young men, selected fromthe students of the university, in order to impress a movement of gaiety and juvenile playfulness on the conversation; an additional motive for which, as I have reason to believe, was, that in this way he withdrew his mind from the sadness which sometimes overshadowed it, for the early deaths of some young friends whom he loved.

Thomas de Quincey - The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (1827)

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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant.
Who was very rarely stable

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