#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

[enlitment]

I agree that Kant's Categorical Imperative is a wildly impractical way of navigating ethics in everyday life

that said, if you deviate from the second expression of the categorical imperative (aka if you treat people around you only as a means to an end), then you absolutely are kind of a kant

[philosophybits]

Socrates did not believe in gods, so he wanted to justify virtue by reason. Kant also did not believe in God, and therefore he derived his morals from "Law." But if there is God, and all men are the children of God, then we should be afraid of nothing and spare nothing. And then the man who madly dissipates his own life and fortunes, and the lives and fortunes of others, is more right than the calculating philosophers who vainly seek to regulate mankind on earth.

Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

[mercedes-lenz]

aristoteles macht mich überdenken ob ich wirklich einen philosophie master machen will bei gott wie kann der typ so langweilig über die seele reden ist die seele nicht das coolste was wir haben wie schafft er es so langweilig zu sein