Kant

[Lism]

Why does everyone hate him? Also, is Kant/Hegel the Advaita to Plato/Aristotle's Vishishtadvaita? I don't really know why people hate him because he was kind of a chud

 

[Brainstorm]

He Kant make good political theories

 

[Pepsilord]

We discussed him in ethics class in school. All I remember about him is that moral rules need to follow the good will or something and the good will is good because it just is, ok?

 

[Lism]

We discussed him in ethics class in school. All I remember about him is that moral rules need to follow the good will or something and the good will is good because it just is, ok?

Yeah I don't really know why you're supposed to follow the categorical imperative. He doesn't explain why

 

[Pepsilord]

Yeah I don't really know why you're supposed to follow the categorical imperative. He doesn't explain why

You're supposed to follow it because it's good, duh

 

[ILoveCoals]

Why does everyone hate him? Also, is Kant/Hegel the Advaita to Plato/Aristotle's Vishishtadvaita? I don't really know why people hate him because he was kind of a chud

He paved the way for individualist liberalism/atheism(see here, here, and here

 

[Lism]

He paved the way for individualist liberalism/atheism(see here, here, and here

I don't really buy any attempts to explain modern liberalism/atheism with a philosopher that maybe only around 5-10% of the population will ever be capable of understanding. Plus, Kant would be a Fascist if he saw how republican democracies actually worked in action.