I have already explained in the preface to the first edition that my philosophy takes Kant as its point of departure and thus presupposes a thorough familiarity with that philosophy: I will reiterate that here. Kant’s teaching so fundamentally alters every mind that has grasped it, that it can be considered an intellectual rebirth.
I've always wanted to read Kant, but I know I'm not capable of grasping it. His books have been sitting on my shelf for years mocking me. They're a constant reminder of my intellectual inadequacy.
>>25041824start with Hume, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke and Berkley. maybe some RousseauKant responded to ongoing debates, without context, you don't know immediately what he's referring to leaving you with pikachushockface.jpg
>>25041787It turns out every German philosopher ever thought the same about Kant, what a coincidence. Surely it has nothing to do with Kant's nationality and the fertile ground for its cultural dissemination by that time's Germany.If Germans were a bit less pious, Kant would've been made a prophet.Read Plato and Aristotle instead, don't waste time with hacks
>>25041904Kant was Russian/Polish, chuddy
>>25041787but why did Schopenhauer not deliver something better but is actually worse ?
>>25041910It's different but I would not call that worse.
>>25041915Schopenhauer is nothing compared to kant you should know this
>>25041787> Beauty is disinterested pleasure> Purposiveness without purpose> Emphasis on Reason> Categorical Imperatives> Thing in itselfThat's all I know about him, and what he's relevant for. Anyone who shills him favorably is philosophically bankrupt so I never had the impulse to read him, his successors all have interacted with his ideas enough that I don't feel like I'll learn anything new so meeeh
>>25042693I am always wondered and stunned by people that doesn't understand kant...if you dont understand kant you understand basically nothing...
