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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Replying to @TAJackson20
Hence why schelling and Nietzsche said Kant was the great alienator of man from the natural world.
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Replying to @giantgio
The important thing to understand about Nietzsche is that his criticisms of philosophy (and Anglos) were 100% correct, but his solutions were very much less so.
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