Hello I'm blessing you with the product of my boredom in philosophy class thank you very much

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! “Have courage to use your own understanding!”--that is the motto of enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant

It is not necessary that whilst I live I should live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics

Not to ramble about the good place but do you ever think about that bit in season 1 where Chidi sarcastically says "do I also need to tell you not to throw sand" and Eleanor responds with "throwing sand is an excellent way to put out a vodka fire" and how that sums up Chidi's character arc so well as well as challenging moral positions like Kant's that claim that there is one exact solution to any given moment because yes, we would all immediately consider throwing sand to be bad, but sometimes it is Genuinely useful and good to throw sand and to apply the ideology of "throwing sand is bad" to Every situation will be to die in a vodka fire.

'I need not think, if only I can pay' mr kant you didn't have to snatch their wigs like that!!!

If you can’t read it, eat it.

where was he gonna take him? absolutely no idea. imput welcome :)

bonus (from ur fav philosophy major):

goodnight

yeah I checked in with r/latin just to make sure I translated a one word sentence correctly for a meme. My research only took me two entire hours. Latin majors when they're in an unemployment contest and their opponent is me

The nature of the human mind is such that it does not passively receive sense data. Rather, it actively digests and structures them, and man therefore knows objective reality precisely to the extent that that reality conforms to the fundamental structures of the mind. The world addressed by science corresponds to principles in the mind because the only world available to the mind is already organized in accordance with the mind’s own processes.

Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind

what do you call an ethical slay

serving kant

One cannot suppress a certain indignation when one sees men’s actions on the great world-stage and finds, beside the wisdom that appears here and there among individuals, everything in the large woven together from folly, childish vanity, even from childish malice and destructiveness. In the end, one does not know what to think of the human race, so conceited in its gifts.

Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

1538- El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

(Immanuel Kant)

if you’re ever unsure about something, ask yourself: would immanuel kant approve of this action?

if the answer is yes, do literally anything else

one is a beloved and respected philosopher, one is adored by children, and yet i am both

Kant talks a lot about common sense for a person that has none at all