Most people don’t really care about Immanuel Kant nowadays and he is considered to be irrelevant. Part of the problem is that his language is difficult. He creates his own terms and defines them. So it requires a commitment on the part of the reader to care enough about his terms and learn them. Then to go on and decipher his philosophy.
But actually, Kant is a genius, a brilliant thinker, who has much to offer anyone who is trying to figure out why should we be good, how can we be good, what is good, and is there such a thing as evil?
I doubt that many people think about picking up his Critique of Pure Reason for fun weekend reading. No one is going to take his Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals to the beach for a leisurely day of reading in the sun.
Therefore, he is relegated to university studies and often thrown in with other philosophers as a historical example. But he is still has so much to offer. And it is intellectually satisfying to delve into the workings of the mind of a genius.
But actually, Kant is a genius, a brilliant thinker, who has much to offer anyone who is trying to figure out why should we be good, how can we be good, what is good, and is there such a thing as evil?
I doubt that many people think about picking up his Critique of Pure Reason for fun weekend reading. No one is going to take his Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals to the beach for a leisurely day of reading in the sun.
Therefore, he is relegated to university studies and often thrown in with other philosophers as a historical example. But he is still has so much to offer. And it is intellectually satisfying to delve into the workings of the mind of a genius.
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