/lit/ - Literature

>>16429326
>coping this hard

>>15898236
>doesn't fulfill the categorical imperative
into the trash it goes

>>14851780
The greatest problem with Goethe is that he was so based and contributed so massively to german 19th - 20th century culture that he, like Wagner, could be accused of causing nazism (by being too based)

>>14708313
Critique of Pure Reason

>>13897739
>muh happiness

>>13630544
>not inherently bad
*ahem*

>>13561776
>those digits
how....

>ordered Kant's Prolegomena, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, and the Critique of Pure Reason a few days ago
I imagine I'm in for a good time.

The foundation of my morality is Kant's categorical imperative.

>>13387045
Kant himself identified visualization as the key to synthetic a priori knowledge. Relax.

can i get a quick rundown on why not simply 'become' a kantian solipsist who lives by the categorical imperative, as practical reason is the sole connection to the intelligible world?

The only potential any of these things have is negative potential that will wreck and destroy your life.
Effeminacy is weakness.
Seek what is eternal; not what is futile.
Renounce carnal desires. No man is free who cannot alter his desire. He is a slave and will be for life. Desires can be fed and reinforced or starved, and destroyed. Cast the ring out and be free.

Double Major in Chemistry + Philosophy

DAS REGELFOLGENPROBLEM IST DIE ANTWORT ZU ALLEN FRAGEN, WER DAS BESTREITET IST IMMER NOCH IM 19TEN JAHRHUNDERT!!!

>>12517490
He cute

>>12409545
Break their yoke before its too late.

>>12307719
>The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling. Mr. Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents and asserts that among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who are transported elsewhere from their countries, although many of them have even been set free, still not a single one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality, even though among the whites some continually rise aloft from the lowest rabble, and through superior gifts earn respect in the world. So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man, and it appears to be as great in regard to mental capacities as in color.

>>12302258
>Since you think the answer is 50/50, do you actually think the middle box would produce the gold speck 150 times?
Well, obviously I'd pick the gold speck every time. It's not like I'm blindfolded.

>>12295349
I agree.
>Less anime posters.
>Less Stirnerites.
>Less libertarian scum.
>More intellectual discussions
>Anti-LGBT (more so than even /pol/)
What is not to like?
>More very high IQ posters and less midwits

>>12294529
he cute

I. THE COLD KANT (on infanticide/abortion)
>In the first part (the "Doctrine of Right," the Rechtslehre) of his late, post-critical Metaphysics of Morals (1797), which part is devoted to the Law, Immanuel Kant tells us about a crime that is "deserving of death" with regard to which it still remains doubtful whether legislation is also authorized to impose the death penalty." This crime is "a mother's murder of her child."1 But Kant is not concerned with a Susan Smith, who drowned in an automobile submerged in a lake her properly, legally, conceived children. That it is "doubtful" that the law should be brought to bear against infanticide is reserved by Kant for a special case:

>"Legislation cannot remove the disgrace of an illegitimate birth. ... A child that comes into the world apart from marriage is born outside the law ... and therefore outside the protection of the law. It has, as it were, stolen into the commonwealth (like contraband merchandise), so that the commonwealth can ignore its existence (since it was not right that it should have come to exist this way), and can therefore also ignore its annihilation."

>>12215038
>brainlet can't understand apolitical pursuits
ach nein nein nein

>>12211927
Even when you're playing chess, it the size decreases. This is because catecholamines are being release in both scenarios; intense thought and intense exercise. The old adage "God gave man a brain and a dick but only enough blood to use one at a time" is indeed true. When I am awake, alert and engaged in thinking it's smaller; when tired, it just gets in the way.

>>12211808
your move, brainlet.