General Kant Thread

What does Kant have to offer?

>>8937492
I don't read anything written by manlets

>>8937499
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8ioZkb-Sc

listen and see

>>8937499
I don't know. I like how he divides and anatomizes his concepts. He's particularistic about everything and he offers interesting insights on beauty and its relation to the other critiques. I find the critique of judgment pretty comfy in terms of how he unites the three supersensibles into one esemplastic whole. His analysis of the sublime is fascinating as well. I never saw the difference between the beautiful and the sublime until I read the critique of judgment. His work on the sublime reminds me of Malick's filmography.

>>8937499
Ive never read him, but I believe he provided a strictly rational foundation for morality/ ethics, which was big at the time because people thought the only alternative to god was nihilism

Should I read Practical Reason before this one or is having read Pure Reason good?

>>8938323
Read practical reason too

>>8937492
lol ich KANTe den schon bevor er cool wurde

>>8937492
I did
>>8937499
Wisdom and a system which mediates between empirism and rationalism
>>8938279
This is another book by Kant called "Kritik der praktischen Vernunft" with concept of the categorical imperativ.
>>8938556
Sehr aufschlussreich

total shit
don't bother

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Why does /lit/ have such a hate boner for our based man Kant?

>>8939105
Because Kant is a genius and most of /lit/ are retarded pseuds

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>>8937492

Read Kant and then complete the system yourself. It can and will be done.

>>8937499

The Critique of Pure Reason made my head spin and my view of the world crumble down *once I really understood it* (which required several readings during the years, and a generous helping of secondary literature about it - but I kept going at it because even from the first confused skim I realized that there was some terrible meaning I still wasn't able to grasp, and it kept calling me like a dark shadow over my existence).

Also: after finishing it, I realized I could pretty much understand all the weird intellectual books that I had accumulated in my bookshelf just because they were cool, but up to that moment looked like hieroglyphs to me (post-modern word salads, commentaries of some obscure kabbalistic work, mathematical analysis of computer algorithms etc.). It is like the extended workout of decoding Kant's concepts provided me with a universal key into every kind of text.

And lastly: Kant is the boss that will unlock pretty much all the modern and contemporary philosophy to you. His ideas changed the world of human thought in a radical way, and it is essential for understanding everything that came later.