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The personal life of Immanuel Kant

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"Autism didn't exist when I was younger"
- Hipster Kant.
  Got the autism before it became mainstream.
- I'm starting to realise why people are calling me a massive Kant.
  
  For a second there I thought this was Reddit.
- My imediate first though was how incredibly autistic this behavior is and fits perfectly with the rest of his persona.
- Well clearly they had vaccines back then.
  /s
  
  Just to point out, the first one was created 8 years before he died.

"it was said neighbors would set their clocks to his daily walks"
And then,
"He considered marriage two times, first to a widow then to a westphalian girl, but both times waited too long"
- Bruh mental health in the 1700s must have sucked
  
  "Hey, he is just odd..."
- “it was said neighbors would set their clocks to his daily walks”
  Reminds me of the Kraftwerk guys. One time David Bowie wanted to talk to them and he was told to "Call the studio at exactly this time". He said he literally watched the clock and at the exact stroke called their studio. He said he didn't even hear the phone ring, they had picked up the phone seconds before he called. lol
  
  Wouldn’t he get a busy signal then?
- Ah yes, the treaty of Westphalia.

This is what I mean when I say Kant (and other enlightenment era thinkers) obsession with some universal moral rules followed by purely rational humans is some dude’s fantasy who never has understood how normal people work.
- I was about to defend him but after refreshing my memory and reading about the Categorical Imperative I think you’re absolutely right.
  
  What's that? I liked the ideas in the first half of "a critique of pure reason"
- Kant is not really like other Enlightenment era thinkers though.

The most hilarious part of Kant's work to me is in his anthropology.
In a footnote he said that there's two ways of studying it: in the first degree, by traveling and meeting people, and I'm the second degree by reading books by traveled people.
But Kant never traveled so he can study antropology in the first degree. So he adds a clause saying that if one lives in a busy port city (like Kant) one can study antropology in the first degree as all the people of the world travel to your city.
I find that level of pettiness from one of the greatest philosophers very endearing
- "pityness"? Even pithiness I don't get your meaning.
  
  I think it's supposed to be "pettiness"
  
  There person that reacted earlier got it right

Yea, I can see how the guy who published the Categorical Imperative never had to accomodate for anyone around him in his daily life.

Following a moral framework so strictly sounds so rewarding...
I say this as an autist historically riddled with anxiety: Life is meant to be lived. I kind of lived similarly for the first ~15 years of my adult life and I regret it as a waste. Get out there, do something cringe, stupid, or questionably ethical. Make dumb mistakes, because if you don't your life will be a void and you'll learn nothing and stagnate. Live a life worthy of telling it as a story. Get hurt and accept you might hurt others by living vibrantly.
I've been trying to do so for the past 7 years or so... covid set me back a little socially but I'm recovering again.
- How do I overcome myself? I've got plans and desired outcomes and it's running me into the ground.
  
  Just as a side anecdote, but I’ve found that having desired outcomes is a surefire way to get disappointed and let down.
  I mean that as in a singular desired outcome for any given action. The more specific the outcome or its prerequisites, the better you’d be not to expect anything and just go do the thing without overthinking it. Note: not abandoning or giving up on the doing of the thing, rather just go and do it and adapt to what universe and chance gives you.
- Yup. Take risks, get out of your comfort zone. Most of the time you find out you were anxious about nothing and when problems arise you can handle them.
- Buy the ticket, take the ride - Hunter S. Thompson
- "covid set me back a little socially but I'm recovering again." Same.
  <Fistbump of solidarity>

I think ladies want to hit that, but Immanuel told them, "Kant touch this."

"Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable..."
- Came here to add this. Glad you beat me to it ❤️

- Immanuel Can't
  
  Marriage?
  Kant be bothered.

Koenigsberg, especially during that time, was considered the progressive hub of the western world, the pinnacle of human achievements and innovation. During that time, you really had the best of everything right in the city. So, why leave? His ideas and thoughts formed the way we think today, he singlehandedly changed the structure of thoughts europeans had.

Kant was also about 5ft tall and had an unusually large head. He had an odd posture suggesting he may have had scoliosis or some form of physical malady. Reports are in spite of his pious upbringing he was popular at parties.
- malady
  But he was a man.

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant.
Who was very rarely stable
- Heidegger?
  
  He was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table
- He was a bit of a Kant

just like me fr fr

He Kant even.

!dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
!dullsters@dullsters.net

I Kant with this

His second rule was, to have a due balance of young men, frequently of very young men, selected fromthe students of the university, in order to impress a movement of gaiety and juvenile playfulness on the conversation; an additional motive for which, as I have reason to believe, was, that in this way he withdrew his mind from the sadness which sometimes overshadowed it, for the early deaths of some young friends whom he loved.
Thomas de Quincey - The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (1827)

Life goals.

In school we spelt his name with an E, anyone know why the discrepancy existed?
- Kante explain it
- posh school?
  
  Emmanual Kant, not very posh and the school certainly wasn’t

Nice meme but is this true? Are there sources?
- It's not true. He left his home town exactly twice IIRC.

Recreation of Kant's daily routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBPkT8Y6IU
- Very interesting vid! Thanks for sharing

Life goals

Kant wasn't like that. He was a socialite

Man, that sounds like the dream right there! I want a safe, predictable life so my creativity can flourish. 😌

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2bnnwYYrI7U

Piece of racist shit
- source?
  
  Like every?
  Of the Different Human Races
  Menschenkunde
  On the Use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy
  Lectures on Anthropology, but better to address the Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View as it appears to be a comprehensive compilation of the course

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