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karatani:
>The previous notwithstanding, one has to keep in mind the fact that Kant did not consider the problematic of morals on a subjective level. As I have said earlier, he saw the core of morality in the imperative: “So act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.” In other words, to Kant, to use others as a means was the major premise to begin with. This was an affirmative recognition of the social life constituted upon division of labor and exchange. For that matter, Smith’s economics was primarily a division of ethics: upon the affirmation of egoism, he sought to go beyond the contradictions caused by the egoism by introducing sympathy. Even today, political economists who question the harms of the market economy tend to resort to sympathy. Meanwhile, Kant criticized
Smith’s “moral sentiments,” and sought to treat morality as an a priori law. Kant’s criticism of Smith makes Kant’s ethics or “the kingdom of ends” look subjectivist; but this could not be the case, for it was based upon realistic, economic ground. That Kant saw the kingdom of ends as a regulative idea contains a critique of the capitalist economy precisely because the capitalist economy makes it fatally impossible to “treat humanity in the person of any other as an end.

land:
>with kant death finds its theoretical formulation and utilitarian frame as a quasi-objectivity correlative to capital, and noumenon is its name. the effective flotation of this term in philosophy coincided with the emergence of a social order built upon a profound rationalization of excess, or rigorous circumspection of voluptuous lethality. once enlightenment rationalism beings its dominion ever fewer corpses are left hanging around in public places with each passing year, ever fewer skulls are used as paperweights, and ever fewer paupers perish undisturbed on the streets. even the graveyards are rationalized and tidied up. it is not surprising, therefore, with with Kant thanatology undergoes the most massive reconstruction in its history. the clerical vultures are purged, or marginalized. death is no longer to be culturally circulated, injecting a transcendent reference into production, and ensuring superterrestrial interests their rights. instead death is privatized, withdrawn into interiority, to flicker at the edge of the contract as a narcissistic anxiety without public accreditation. compared to the immortal soul of capital the death of the individual becomes an empirical triviality, a mere re-allocation of stock.

someday we'll get the movie we deserve about this story, lads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2EUUF47Ms