It's a shame that .@Neoabsolutism doesn't seem very active on twitter these days; he wanted me to do the book entirely for this chapter. Oh well, this needed to happen anyway given all the German Idealists on here.
Alasdair MacIntyre's "A Short History of Ethics"
CHAPTER 14
KANT
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Last time: French anglophiles whose idea of Britain was roughly as accurate as a weeb's idea of Japan LARPed hard. A lunatic named Rousseau invented "the general will" and, in one of history's greatest ironies, said that only Corsicans possessed the capacity for democracy.
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Still, as silly as Rousseau was, Kant was even more influential and even more obviously wrong, which is why he gets his own chapter and Rosseau doesn't.pic.twitter.com/l2sT2lc35R
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Kant's main project is salvaging the Enlightenment from the train-wreck that Hume left it in, and he does so through the radical idea of 'using conclusions as premises.'pic.twitter.com/vB5FPQiqm6
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Specifically, Kant is using sophist premises, the "my desires are hardcoded 'cause hexis don't real" trope.pic.twitter.com/C6j9U2ikia
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@EveKeneinan When I took a gruelling grad Kant course I always had the Sam feeling as Mac: a very intricate and well meticulously crafted system with gaping flaws that make no sense unless humans were nothing more then cerebellums on a stick.
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