• Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
    16·
    1 天前

    The most hilarious part of Kant’s work to me is in his anthropology.

    In a footnote he said that there’s two ways of studying it: in the first degree, by traveling and meeting people, and I’m the second degree by reading books by traveled people.

    But Kant never traveled so he can study antropology in the first degree. So he adds a clause saying that if one lives in a busy port city (like Kant) one can study antropology in the first degree as all the people of the world travel to your city.

    I find that level of pettiness from one of the greatest philosophers very endearing

  • Disaffected Scorpio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 天前

    Kant was also about 5ft tall and had an unusually large head. He had an odd posture suggesting he may have had scoliosis or some form of physical malady. Reports are in spite of his pious upbringing he was popular at parties.

  • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    160·
    2 天前

    “it was said neighbors would set their clocks to his daily walks”

    And then,

    “He considered marriage two times, first to a widow then to a westphalian girl, but both times waited too long”

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      2 天前

      “it was said neighbors would set their clocks to his daily walks”

      Reminds me of the Kraftwerk guys. One time David Bowie wanted to talk to them and he was told to “Call the studio at exactly this time”. He said he literally watched the clock and at the exact stroke called their studio. He said he didn’t even hear the phone ring, they had picked up the phone seconds before he called. lol

        • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 天前

          Only if you were on a call already. I had it happen a couple of times to me back then. “Call me back in a minute!” I’d call back and they had already picked the phone up.

          • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 天前

            Was it different in other parts of the world or something? When I was growing up, if you could hear a dial tone, incoming calls would receive a busy signal.

          • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
            71·
            2 天前

            How far back in the day are we talking about? Like back when the entire street shared a single line?

  • Allemaniac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 天前

    Koenigsberg, especially during that time, was considered the progressive hub of the western world, the pinnacle of human achievements and innovation. During that time, you really had the best of everything right in the city. So, why leave? His ideas and thoughts formed the way we think today, he singlehandedly changed the structure of thoughts europeans had.

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1011·
    2 天前

    This is what I mean when I say Kant (and other enlightenment era thinkers) obsession with some universal moral rules followed by purely rational humans is some dude’s fantasy who never has understood how normal people work.

    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      2 天前

      I was about to defend him but after refreshing my memory and reading about the Categorical Imperative I think you’re absolutely right.

      • zzx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 天前

        What’s that? I liked the ideas in the first half of “a critique of pure reason”

        • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          5·
          1 天前

          “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

          It’s basic and kinda neat as a personal moral philosophy.

  • mastod0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
    513·
    2 天前

    Yea, I can see how the guy who published the Categorical Imperative never had to accomodate for anyone around him in his daily life.

  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    615·
    2 天前

    Following a moral framework so strictly sounds so rewarding…

    I say this as an autist historically riddled with anxiety: Life is meant to be lived. I kind of lived similarly for the first ~15 years of my adult life and I regret it as a waste. Get out there, do something cringe, stupid, or questionably ethical. Make dumb mistakes, because if you don’t your life will be a void and you’ll learn nothing and stagnate. Live a life worthy of telling it as a story. Get hurt and accept you might hurt others by living vibrantly.

    I’ve been trying to do so for the past 7 years or so… covid set me back a little socially but I’m recovering again.

      • orgrinrt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 天前

        Just as a side anecdote, but I’ve found that having desired outcomes is a surefire way to get disappointed and let down.

        I mean that as in a singular desired outcome for any given action. The more specific the outcome or its prerequisites, the better you’d be not to expect anything and just go do the thing without overthinking it. Note: not abandoning or giving up on the doing of the thing, rather just go and do it and adapt to what universe and chance gives you.

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 天前

      Yup. Take risks, get out of your comfort zone. Most of the time you find out you were anxious about nothing and when problems arise you can handle them.

        • rekabis@lemmy.caEnglish
          91·
          2 天前

          Instead of deleting, you could have just edited.

          Still, commenting on your deleted comment is mildly hilarious. Makes me really wonder what skeleton fell out of your closet.

  • breecher@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 天前

    His second rule was, to have a due balance of young men, frequently of very young men, selected fromthe students of the university, in order to impress a movement of gaiety and juvenile playfulness on the conversation; an additional motive for which, as I have reason to believe, was, that in this way he withdrew his mind from the sadness which sometimes overshadowed it, for the early deaths of some young friends whom he loved.

    Thomas de Quincey - The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (1827)