Thread 24692549

eternal reminder

More like daily reminder.

>here’s 20 pages of the most convoluted and dense prose you’ve ever seen to explain something that could have been said in 2 paragraphs with simple language and 2 examples
>now read it again lol

>>24692881
>that could have been said in 2 paragraphs with simple language and 2 examples
It was said in exactly the number of paragraphs and conplexity of language as was needed.

>I have observed, with pleasure and thankfulness, in the pages of various reviews and treatises, that the spirit of profound and thorough investigation is not extinct in Germany, though it may have been overborne and silenced for a time by the fashionable tone of a licence in thinking, which gives itself the airs of genius—and that the difficulties which beset the paths of Criticism have not prevented energetic and acute thinkers from making themselves masters of the science of pure reason to which these paths conduct—a science which is not popular, but scholastic in its character, and which alone can hope for a lasting existence or possess an abiding value.

Read this first

>>24692549 (OP)
Is Kant even worth reading? Can i read some books about his philisophy instead?

After Critique do I need to jump into Fichte or can I go straight to Hegel?
>>24693577
It's a very difficult book, helps to have ChatGPT give you a summary of whatever part you're about to read because it will condense and simplify the concepts by putting them into concise modern English.
It is a foundational text and considered the greatest work of modern philosophy so for that alone I'd say it's worth reading.
It also sets the groundwork for the Germans which follow thereafter; Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and I'm sure many others as well. A lot of philosophy is an extension of ideas so the further back you go the more comfortable you will be since you will have a deeper understanding of the context in which old ideas are being challenged or new ideas are being built upon.
I would say read Critique and even if you only get a surface level understanding, which most do on their first pass, or so i"m told, you'll still have that rite of passage completed which is an achievement in itself.

>>24692549 (OP)
Why should I, I mean I read some entries on him and it’s basically this:
1. The mind is not the collection of sense-input but an active agent that constructs experience by way of its own inherent structure. This is widely accepted in neurology I believe.
2. We can never know things-in-themselves, because the mind constructs its own reality. Reality outside the mind exists however we can never know it.

What else am I missing?

>>24693577
just watch the michael sugrue lecture

>>24693791
You can always tell when someone is two pages into a philosopher when they write this Reddit-tier shit.

“Once I read X then I will read Y”

“A influenced B who influenced C (I learned this from a Reddit comment)”

“Use ChatGPT to help into understandings”

“What commentaries should I read to understand this philosopher”

“I heard this book/podcast was good”

Fix your adhd and read one philosopher and the relevant bibliography for like 10 years and never open up another askphilosophy thread for the love of god. You aren’t gonna just read Kant like a novel, then Fichte, then Schelling. Unless you are a grad student this will take years and years. You should be thinking “this week I am going to read the transcendental deduction 50 times and the relevant bibliography for the next few months”

>>24693908
>read one philosopher for 10 years
Tongue my anus

to be fair you have to be very high on stimulants to truly get kant

>all we know are intuitions given by senses and some unexplained categories of our minds therefore nothing can be truth at all
wow, truly the best philosophy has to offer, i kneel

>>24695350
you have to ask wtf was he on then?

>>24695385
Nothing, he had divine intellect.

>>24695564
no u

>>24692549 (OP)
i dont read freemason/jewish literature.
enlightenment was the 2nd biggest cancer after protestantism in europe.

>>24695587
Kant wasn't a freemason or jew.

>>24692549 (OP)
You're doing God's work, anon. Thank you.

>>24693801
>What else am I missing?

Literally the system, and you can't understand Kant unless you understand the entire system. Therefore, you don't understand Kant.

>>24695587
Peak retard

>>24695385
coffee. a lot of coffee.

>>24692925
>I have observed [...] that the spirit of [...] investigation is not extinct in Germany [...] and that the difficulties [...] have not prevented [...] thinkers from making themselves masters of the science of pure reason [...] which alone can [...] possess an abiding value.

>>24695828
>didn't really understand this

Because Penguin is inferior to Cambridge

>>24695399
That's Jacobi not Kant

https://files.catbox.moe/xhquio.mp4