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>Immanuel Kant
Kant’s biography is unusually devoid of external events. The philosopher lived in an isolated Prussian province for his entire life, rarely venturing outside the walls of his native Königsberg and never traveling even so far as the sea, only a few hours away. A lifelong bachelor, he taught the same courses at the local university for more than forty years. His was a life of ordered regularity—which later gave rise to a portrait of the philosopher as a sort of characterless automaton. In actual fact, as Manfred Kuehn argues in his 2001 biography, Kant’s life was not quite as abstract and passionless as Heine and others have supposed. Kant loved to socialize, and he was a gifted conversationalist and a genial host. If he failed to live a more adventurous life, it was largely due to his health: the philosopher had a congenital skeletal defect that caused him to develop an abnormally small chest, which compressed his heart and lungs and contributed to a generally delicate constitution. In order to prolong his life with the condition—and in an effort to quell the mental anguish caused by his lifelong hypochondria—Kant adopted what he called “a certain uniformity in the way of living and in the matters about which I employ my mind.”

His routine was as follows: Kant rose at 5:00 A.M., after being woken by his longtime servant, a retired soldier under explicit orders not to let the master oversleep. Then he drank one or two cups of weak tea and smoked his pipe. According to Kuehn, “Kant had formulated the maxim for himself that he would smoke only one pipe, but it is reported that the bowls of his pipes increased considerably in size as the years went on.” After this period of meditation, Kant prepared his day’s lectures and did some writing. Lectures began at 7:00 A.M. and lasted until 11:00. His academic duties discharged, Kant would go to a restaurant or a pub for lunch, his only real meal of the day. He did not limit his dining company to his fellow academics but enjoyed mixing with townspeople from a variety of backgrounds. As for the meal itself, he preferred simple fare, with the meat well done, accompanied by good wine. Lunch might go until as late as 3:00, after which Kant took his famous walk and visited his closest friend, Joseph Green. They would converse until 7:00 on weekdays (9:00 on weekends, perhaps joined by another friend). Returning home, Kant would do some more work and read before going to bed precisely at 10:00.

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Whats the big deal? Why were almost all modern philosophers so obssesed with this?

>>17686238
Basically our zeitgeist has been unable to move past the 80s(although I'd argue that it really started with the sexual liberation of the 60s), imo it's just a way people like Derrida and Fischer synthesize Debord's idea of recuperation with a fairly standard conservative cultural critique, a la Douthat's the decadent society or Bork's slouching towards Gomorrah.
>>17686354
Blind obedience to the categorical imperative*

>>17388021
How the fuck would a teacher go about getting kids into this lil nigga?

im not going to read a dude that looks like this

Why almost no modern philosopher has analyzed war by itself from a philosophical perspective? Or showed interest on the subject whatsoever? The only major work that I can think of it's Kant's Perpetual Peace, which isn't even about war primarly.

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>>16440399
instagram angle

Does Synthetic a priori knowledge actually exist? What are some good examples? I don't know if I'm convinced that math is

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>>15927074
Kant was an ugly goblin creature just like you

Leave Hume to me...