I'm interested in reading Kant. What are the required readings to understand him? I've read all of Plato's works, Aristotle's essentials (Organon, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, Ethics), and Descartes (For Direction, On the Understanding, and Meditations). I've heard Hume is necessary for the context, but I've also read that Schopenhauer exclusively read Plato and Kant and was able to grasp Kant no problem.
Do you think I am ready?
>>9700343
>and was able to grasp Kant no problem
Debatable
You've read Second Alcibiades little faggot? You've read Rival Lovers you piece of shit?
>>9700351
Prove these are by Plato, faggot
>>9700343
I've only read a very scant bit of Kant (the prolegomena) but I did take a university course which /set us up to be able to read Kant/, if that makes any sense. I will reiterate the gist of what the course told us.
What you really need to get Kant are the moderns who come just before him, which fall into two schools: the Rationalists (Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza etc) and the Empiricists (Hume, Locke, Berkeley etc). There is a disagreement between the two strains of thought that the groups represent which goes to epistimology: can you know things /a priori/ (mathematical statements, say), or do you need "real-world experience" of some kind, or something like it. A large part of Kant's project is reconciling these two schools, which is why it's important to know the differences before you go in.
I would suggest that if you read works by a good 3-5 of the above, especially juxtaposing their differing views for your own understanding, then you're in a good position to read some Kant and get something out of it.
>>9700383
Thanks, anon.