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Measurement of a space (as apprehension) is at the same time a description of it, and so an objective movement in the imagination and a progression. On the other hand the comprehension of the manifold in the unity, not of thought, but of intuition, and consequently the comprehension of the successively apprehended parts at one glance, is a retrogression that removes the time-condition in the progression of the imagination, and renders co-existence intuitable. Therefore, since the time-series is a condition of inner sense and of an intuition, it is a subjective movement of the imagination by which it does violence to inner sense—a violence which must be proportionately more striking the greater the quantum which the imagination comprehends in one intuition. -Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement
We are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest opinions (to which synthetic judgements a priori belong), are the most indispensable to us; that without a recognition of logical fictions, without a comparison of reality with the purely imagined world of the absolute and immutable, without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live—that the renunciation of false opinions would be a renunciation of life, negation to life. To recognize untruth as a condition of life; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner, and a philosophy which ventures to do so, has thereby alone placed itself beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
One of the most bizarre adaptations in the animal kingdom belongs to the humble Seagull. Where other birds are driven by the Four Fs, Seagulls possess a perfect awareness of how fleeting and meaningless their lives are. This allows them to harass beachgoers and steal food without any regrets whatsoever, although on occasion you may find one struggling to cope with a universe that is both unfeeling and eternal.
See one of my problems with Kant is this: Yah I should do this because it's my duty, and it's my duty because of [his] logic. But even assuming your logic is correct, since when has logic been a deciding factor in choice?
Our logic does not make decisions for us, we make the decision to follow our logic. We make decisions by ourselves or by the passions we've elected to have power over us. Logic is not an end, it is merely a tool a crucial and unexceptable tool for human life and progression; yet still only a tool not a god.
Thinking about the evolving tree of religion-philosophy-sciences is wild, like, check it.
So it starts with African religions, then ancient egypt and the beginning of politics, then India and their religions and politics, then China, and Greece, and Rome, and all their philosophers and schools of thought, and then all the lines of thought evolve into countless more lines of thought molded by the events that happen around them, until the modern day!
It's easier to give examples when doing it backwards:
Marxism<-Hegelianism<-Kantianism<-Cartesianism<-Christian Philosophy<-Christian Theology<-Platonism<-Pre-Socratic Philosophy<-Greek Mythology<-Egyptian Mythology<-African Mythology
So to study Marxism properly, you have to have studied all of those before it! GREAT :3
My first pages are up on the site!
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How does one turn the categorical imperative into a cutie mark?