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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So: we can't ground morality in either nature OR virtue. But don't worry, Kant has a clever plan:pic.twitter.com/x6ebye0DPA
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Already, I'm sure you can see some cracks starting to form in this edifice.pic.twitter.com/qndeBLbO8C
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You might not like it, but this is what peak Protestantism looks like. (N.b. that Kant, like Rousseau and Hume, resorts to the concept of sympathy as an epicycle to resolve the flaws in his argument, except that he calls it "sensibility.")pic.twitter.com/P3AaDWHTZk
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I always wanted to throw Kant finally to the trash heap, elevating moral rational self-giving authority above Jesus and divine authority? Yeah no thanks, this is peak enlightenment, Mac has freed us of the kanthan yoke!
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