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To: ConservativeDude
It was not clear which of Kant's ideas may have triggered the violence.

1)Kant held that logic and causality - principles essential to the integration mode of thought- are baseless; neither can be derived from sense data of validated by reason, whether this base is conceived in Platonic or in Aristotelian fashion.

2)Kant rejects out of hand Aristotle's theory that concepts derive from percepts. On the contrary, concepts, or at least the world-shaping ones, come first; and percepts are their product Such concepts Kant points out, cannot be validated by observation,or by rationalist deduction from so-called "self evident" insights.

3) reality is unknowable (but Kant knows that the truth of his theory is knowable)

Kant's philosophy is not a set of affirmations, worldly or otherworldly, but of negations:

1) in metaphysics, Kant denies the reality of this world in favor of a higher realm, but in favor of a realm inconceivable to human consciousness.

2) in epistemology, Kant condemns man's consciousness as impotent to grasp real truth, because it requires an means of consciousness.

3) in ethics,Kant put an end to the morality of the Enlightenment by unleashing the code of self-sacrifice in its pure form.He claimed that a moral action is an end in itself rather than the means to end.

His philosophy is evil because the modern products of his philosophy are pragmatism, skepticism,and nihilism which libtards happily use constantly.

73 posted on 09/16/2013 11:10:37 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: mjp

well said.

it is no exaggeration to state that Kant’s philosophy is in fact evil.


81 posted on 09/16/2013 11:44:21 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: mjp

Ayn Rand was an all-out Kant hater, which was the one thing I like the most about her. Kant was the prototype for the modern college professor: write indecipherable drivel so that other professors say you are “brilliant”. LOL


86 posted on 09/23/2013 6:56:11 PM PDT by Rick_Tygart ("Dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.")
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