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Confession of Stupidity: Lately, I’ve been had long and agonizing conversation with my friend about the categorical imperative. I was insisting that it didn’t make sense; my friend insisted that it did, and that I merely misunderstood it. After much deliberation, I found to my embarrassment that Leggi tutto

Θα τολμούσα να πω (αν και αυθαίρετα ίσως), ότι ο Καντ είναι ο Αριστοτέλης της σύγχρονης δυτικής φιλοσοφίας. Πολύ απαιτητικό βιβλίο, αν και το πιο προσιτό του σε μη ειδικούς αναγνώστες. Leggi tutto

I was the annoying guy in class who kept insisting that the categorical imperative was the Golden Rule with a thick, convoluted veneer of the most difficult writing in philosophical history slathered all over it. Of course it is slightly different than the Golden Rule, but I'd say only trivially so. Leggi tutto

Happiness is not the central character or aim in Kant's ethics, as is the case with most ethical theories, nor is happiness the ideal state of the mind. Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785) is more focused on presenting the core principles of morality derived from a priori pure ideas Leggi tutto

There is a joke in German...the German philosophy student who learns English because Kant was too hard to understand in German(!) The hardest book I have ever read...99% went over my head...Kant was a genius - I am not. Just the right book to take you down a notch; but I will keep trying to understa Leggi tutto