PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was acutely aware of living in an age when philosophy would need to supplant the role once played by religion. This helped him to arrive at his most famous concept: the ‘categorical imperative.’

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“Immanuel Kant is a philosopher who tried to work out how human beings could be good and kind – outside of the exhortations and blandishments of traditional religion. He was born in 1724 in the Baltic city of Königsberg, which at that time was part of Prussia, and now belongs to Russia (renamed Kaliningrad)...”

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[hexagonaltv]

Immanuel Kant at dinner parties:
“Why is no one having a good time? I specifically requested it”

[sarahafzal]

Kant: lived modestly
Also Kant: criticised by friends for attending too many parties

[beeclu]

"so that everyone left in a good mood. he died in 1804." with no pause whatsoever.

[ketchup]

My favourite Kant quote: Time and space are the framework within which the mind is constrained in order to construct its experience of reality.
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[punchline]

This guy really inspires me. Not just with his thought provoking writings and philosophy, but the fact he was able to never be limited by his own name.

[denisherlock]

I've been trying to understand his work. But sorry, i just Kant

[zehraali]

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
- Immanuel Kant

[MissLebo]

I'm doing my assignment on philosophy and this helped a lot, online classes are just not it

[willferrous]

Ah, the philosophy series, the primary reason why i subscribed.

[mingmiao]

This video only introduced Kant's ethical ideas. It would be nice to have another video on Kantian metaphysics and epistemology- especially his solution to Hume's problem

[dontaskwhatkindofmusic]

I just watched the Schopenhauer before this and I love that they’re both just like “surround yourself with art”

[drmikizo]

anything but good looking..." Just wow 😂😂

[WeiYinChan]

This came out right after my essay in Immanuel Kant was due...

[vikramdharma]

Person of wisdom of his era. He must have been agnostic. He inspired many people after him, that is in itself the greatest achievement of any human's life. Long live Kant's philosophy.

[nganaoshimrah]

The movement of Kant's eye is epic

[xtxpxhx]

There's nothing I don't love a bout this video. Whoever is in charge of the animations deserves an standing ovation of the whole you tube quorum.

[xxFortunadoxx]

So a couple issues with this video.

First, no talk about Kant's ethics is even possible without talking about his metaphysics and epistemology. Without that, his ethics is nonsensical.
Second, the categorical imperative is not the golden rule. In fact, he specifically states that it's importantly different than the golden rule in a footnote as to try to make sure people don't make this common mistake. The fact that Kant specifically went out of his way to emphasize this point (which, considering how dry, dense, complex, and free of examples his works are, says a lot), it's very important to not see the CI in this way.
Third, Kant's goal with his entire philosophy was to diliniate the limits of theoretical reason (facts and judgments) and the realms of practical reason (ethics). In addition, the goal was to explain how religion provides access beyond what reason can offer us. That's why the books are called "critique of pure reason", "critique of practical reason", and "critique of judgment". Critique here means, examining the limits of, pure reason refers to theoretical knowledge (cognition and empirical sense data), and judgment refers to our subjective aesthetic tastes and teleological tastes. So the Critiques are examining the limits of our theoretical knowledge, and our aesthetic judgments of beauty. Once the limits of these domains of reason are understood (the phenomenal world), the concept of god is all that remains to explain the remaining aspects that cannot be explained by these domains. (the noumena)
So the purpose of his philosophy wasn't just to find out where religion went wrong; it was to explain where god's role, and the role of revelation in how the world works.

[sriniarivalagan]

The school of life videos may be as short as 5 minutes, but truly, i pause 20 -30 times to contemplate and ponder upon, and so it is like a journey that atleast eats an hour, and presents a sense or a language to the world and to the fellow fellows.

[TheManifoldCuriosity]

Great. One of the first philosophical quotes that ever resonated with me came from Kant:

'Two things awe me most: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.'

I love it. I might disagree with morality being elevated to such a cosmic level in principle, but I love it still. So inspiring.

[Mrlacklp]

No, the categorical imperative isn't the "golden rule": "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", as this is way to subjective for Kant to accept it as the foundation of ethics. It requires you to ask what the underlying principle, the maxim, of your action is and points out that you should only commit that action if you could wish that this underlying maxim became law for everyone within the society, so everyone alwas acts on it.