98% of all philosophers spend their professional lives bullshitting. What most people fail to appreciate about Kant is that he actually said things specific enough that they turned out to be wrong. Einstein was able to refute his claims about the nature of time and space and show they were incorrect

Kant necessitated a paradigm shift in philosophy with the Prolegomena. Prior to Kant, philosophy sought to discover and ask questions about an objective world. Kant showed that it made no sense to talk about the world without also talking about a subject through whom it filtered. The forms of human

Finished the Prolegomena and I don’t find it as powerful as the Critique, it likely isn’t supposed to be? I found it elastic in its ambitions, which isn’t necessarily bad. Alas I didn’t know the code for extracting the scientific out of the noumenal. Found myself instead stranded at the crossroads o

"Aga et inimvaim kunagi täielikult loobuks metafüüsikauurimustest, on niisama vähe tõenäoline nagu seegi, et kartusel hingata sisse saastunud õhku lakkaksime me kunagi täielikult hingamast." (lk 148)

"Kui ma ütlen, et me oleme sunnitud vaatlema maailma nii, just nagu [als ob] oleks ta mingi kõrgeima

I'd started but not finished this supplementary polemic to the Critique of Pure Reason while working on my seminary thesis at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on 110th and Cathedral in New York City. Although some had recommended it as an easy approach to the critical project, time was short and I wanted t

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Kant starts off really well, seemingly chrushing skepticism, demolishing rationalism and empirism. But then...something happens...something terrifying...we end up in the marshlands of IDEALISM and we are sinking slowly while Kant promises us that he will save us with his metafysik. But he Kant.