What made this man's philosophy so revolutionary

He gave europe what europe wanted: shitty self-indulgent "philosophy".

Now we have this huge corpse in philosophy's history we can't get rid off.

>>1683809
Damm....

who was the last great European philosopher in your mind?

>>1683798
>closet relativist
>revolutionary

pick one

>>1683798
the categorical imperative is the realization that positivism was overtly false because human perceptions are shaped by more than individual observations.

human structures of knowledge depend on higher structures of order. he conceptualized this as god, which was wrong, but higher structures of order that we MUST ordain do exist.

that's why his philosophy was valuable.

positivism is just an encouragement of following local incentives to the detriment of society.

>>1683934
Eric Voegelin

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Just don't forget who woke him from his dogmatic slumber.

>le priori

Man, I wrote two paragraphs and scrapped it. Wouldn't want to spoonfeed, especially on /his/. At least y'all will learn something better than some random guy on an imageboard.

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>http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant/

I have mixed feelings. The ideas themselves are very deep, esp. the system he developed called Transcendental Idealism. But he cloaks his ideas in this retarded academic prose that makes it near impossible to read.

Decartes and Hume both wrote in simple sentences that didn't require you to study the sentences themselves to discern any meaning.