‘Out of love of humanity I am willing to admit that most of our actions are in accordance with duty; but, if we look closer at our thoughts and aspirations, we everywhere come upon the dear self, which is always salient, and it is this instead of the stern command of duty (which would often require self-denial) which supports our plans.’
- Immanuel Kant
‘Why should we think of self-love as being at all an impediment to the sort of life at which we ought reasonably to aim? After all, are we not told by an Author whose moral authority compares quite favorably with Kant’s that we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves?’
- Harry Frankfurt
‘A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. … By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us….’
- John 13, I John 3
Kant is a pansy.
I hate him.
That’s all I want to say.
My brother the college pastor, everyone! Let’s give him a big welcome!
Update: Not entirely fair. My brother, the philosophy major college pastor who wrote a fairly in-depth seminar paper on Kant. Certainly better equipped than me to render judgment on Kant’s pansiness, or lack thereof.
ok. . . but then in all fairness to us not well learned in Kant – Why is Kant a pansy – and why do you Hate” him?