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Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:36 pm
by Philosophy Now
Mark Couch wonders where we should draw the line with historical thinkers.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/148/Should_Kant_Be_Canceled
Re: Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:00 pm
by Sculptor
You would have to cancel 99% of historical figures by this rubric.
Re: Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:56 pm
by Impenitent
Marx should be cancelled
-Imp
Re: Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 11:36 pm
by RCSaunders
Sculptor wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:00 pm
You would have to cancel 99% of historical figures by this rubric.
So, where's the problem?
Re: Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:40 pm
by Sculptor
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 11:36 pm
Sculptor wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:00 pm
You would have to cancel 99% of historical figures by this rubric.
So, where's the problem?
The problem is that we rely on so many of them.
You just have to accept that history is a foreign shore and people do things differently there.
It does not mean that you can cancel them all.
If that were a viable proposition it would only be a couple of decades before the cancellers were themselves cancelled by the next generation. And we would be left of a tribe of wet-behind-the-ears idiots who can't learn from the past, in perpetuity.
Sometimes it feels exactly like that.
Putin was born in 1952 - too young to remember the horror and folly of WW2.
Re: Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 9:59 pm
by RCSaunders
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:40 pm
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 11:36 pm
Sculptor wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:00 pm
You would have to cancel 99% of historical figures by this rubric.
So, where's the problem?
The problem is that we rely on so many of them.
You just have to accept that history is a foreign shore and people do things differently there.
It does not mean that you can cancel them all.
If that were a viable proposition it would only be a couple of decades before the cancellers were themselves cancelled by the next generation. And we would be left of a tribe of wet-behind-the-ears idiots who can't learn from the past, in perpetuity.
Sometimes it feels exactly like that.
Putin was born in 1952 - too young to remember the horror and folly of WW2.
Of course. My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's just that no one obviously learns anything from history that changes anything, so if there weren't any history, things certainly wouldn't be any worse, except for all those who make their incomes as historians.
Re: Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:49 am
by promethean75
"Marx should be cancelled"
You could cancel every 'philosopher' up to Marx, and in a hunerd years you'd never notice they were missing.
But not Karl. Never Karl.
Karl's time is now more than ever. Stay tuned and keep watching the world.
Re: Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 2:56 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
'cancel' is only a cowardly way of saying 'censor' or 'burn the books of'.
If you think book burning is a good thing then go for it, just don't hide behind any 'morality' bullshit.
Re: Should Kant Be Canceled?
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:11 am
by Eodnhoj7
Self forgetting is the manifestation of history as what becomes historical is that which was forgotten prior; history is the repetition of events as the forgetting of said repetition which paradoxically results in repetition. Nothing is new if everything is forgotten.