I remember hearing that there was a book by Immanuel Kant that libertarians often describe as being the start of the downfall of Western societies and I want to read it. Does anyone know what it might be?

>>24579894 (OP)
The Metaphysics of Morals.

>>24579894 (OP)
The start of the downfall was the Bible. Jew lefties doing meme warfare on aristocratic Rome

>>24579894 (OP)
I would've said there is no trash than layman opinions of Kant, but libertarians manage to take it to another level lol

Not sure what that one book would be. The most likely thing would be to equate Kantian "subjectivism" with the downfall of philosophy or values or whatever, and then the most likely target would just be his biggest and most important book, the first Critique, the Critique of Pure Reason. He doesn't really have any other books that are widely known or said to be "the really evil one."

Libertarians specifically I'm even more confused by. I'm assuming you mean political libertarians and not libertarians in the sense of defenders of a strong stance on freedom of the will. Kant is a Rousseauist in the same sense that all his contemporaries were, and his moral philosophy is deontological rather than consequentialist or utilitarian, and emphasizes typical Enlightenment "convergence" of rational subjects on rational ends, although in his own uniquely Kantian (and very interesting and influential) ways.

I could see them saying something like Fichte's Closed Commercial State was a disaster for influencing subsequent economic organicism or protectionist/autarkic nationalism, maybe. But not really Kant.

However if libertarians do have a hate-on for Kant you'd probably find it stated in Hayek's books, so just download them quickly and check the index for Kant mentions. Road to Serfdom and The Counter-Revolution of Science might be the likeliest candidates.

>>24580336
Sorry about your dad

>>24580336
>we wuz kangz n shiet
come on bro

>>24579894 (OP)
Libertarians hate anyone who tells them that they should act like decent human beings

>>24579894 (OP)
There's already a rand thread. Austrians are the only capitalists left. Pick one and fuck off.

>>24580358
The irony is that Kant is the oposite of a subjectivist and it is the overreaction to Kant's irrefutable and relentless objectivism that pushed Europe on the downward spiral of subjectivism.

>>24580336
kinda hilarious that you have to go back 2000 years to find something not improved by Christianity in your history and you still try it. Tell me honestly, would you rather live in the Middle Ages or Republican Rome? your ass is getting conscripted

>>24579894 (OP)
they unironically believe that the massive influence of Kant's first Critique leads to nihilism, as if Hamann didn't already prove that it was rationalism that was leading to it