#kant philosophy

[kaizenin21stcentury]

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! “Have courage to use your own understanding!”--that is the motto of enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant

[cuntyfiedcatholicbisaster]

Hello I'm blessing you with the product of my boredom in philosophy class thank you very much

[lesbianrecorderplayer]

Not to ramble about the good place but do you ever think about that bit in season 1 where Chidi sarcastically says "do I also need to tell you not to throw sand" and Eleanor responds with "throwing sand is an excellent way to put out a vodka fire" and how that sums up Chidi's character arc so well as well as challenging moral positions like Kant's that claim that there is one exact solution to any given moment because yes, we would all immediately consider throwing sand to be bad, but sometimes it is Genuinely useful and good to throw sand and to apply the ideology of "throwing sand is bad" to Every situation will be to die in a vodka fire.

[holy-duckk]

mad as hell about the philosophy exam so i drew myself killing kant with a baseball bat

[philosophybits]

It is not necessary that whilst I live I should live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics

[thesecrethistori-an]

A bit of train study to catch up with my readings

[hhhhleb]

inspired by The Rebel by Albert Camus (just an excuse to draw Sci :D)

[funky-writer-man]

I think being queer influences my belief against "lying is bad all the time". My experience with personal safety, comfort and privacy in relation to being in the closet or stealth as a trans person really cements my belief that lying can definitely be fine, and actually the best thing you could do, in a lot of cases.

[quotessentially]

From Immanuel Kant’s Doctrine of Virtue

[ssontag]

'I need not think, if only I can pay' mr kant you didn't have to snatch their wigs like that!!!

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

If you can’t read it, eat it.

[peeporoon]

yeah I checked in with r/latin just to make sure I translated a one word sentence correctly for a meme. My research only took me two entire hours. Latin majors when they're in an unemployment contest and their opponent is me

[ziglikesrain]

where was he gonna take him? absolutely no idea. imput welcome :)

bonus (from ur fav philosophy major):

goodnight

[philosophybits]

Kant's argument for his Formula of Humanity [...] started from the fact that when we make a choice we must regard its object as good. [...] He asked what it is that makes these objects good, and, rejecting one form of realism, he decided that the goodness was not in the objects themselves. Were it not for our desires and inclinations — and for the various physiological, psychological, and social conditions which gave rise to those desires and inclinations — we would not find their objects good. Kant saw that we take things to be important because they are important to us — and he concluded that we must therefore take ourselves to be important. In this way, the value of humanity itself is implicit in every human choice.

Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity

[mediocretea-blog]

A young poet does not permit himself to be dissuaded out of his conviction that his poem is beautiful.

Not by the judgement of the public or of his friends.

It is only at a later time, when his judgement has been sharpened by exercise, that he voluntarily departs from his former judgements.

Just as he proceeds with those of his judgements which rest upon reason. (Kant)

I was doing reading for my philosophy class, but all I can think about is sad old men. :( This took much more time than reading the chapter did. Mostly because of the backgrounds, I hate backgrounds.