The personal life of Immanuel Kant

"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.

"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
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.

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.
"covid set me back a little socially but I'm recovering again." Same.
<Fistbump of solidarity>
Buy the ticket, take the ride - Hunter S. Thompson
- On second thought, I should not share that.

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

Immanuel Can't
- Marriage?
  Kant be bothered.

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

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

He Kant even.

just like me fr fr

!dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

!dullsters@dullsters.net

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.

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

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

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.

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.