Immanuel Kant
The Famous, Intellectual Philosopher from Germany

Thesis Turgid, dogmatic, overrated and well past its sell-by. Proof As Einstein exasperatedly said: if Kant had only been able to stop pontificating about the nature of time and space, he might actually have discovered something interesting about them. Einstein, with considerable justification, felt th......more

When I was about seven, my favorite movie was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mom was dating this philosophy professor who was writing a book on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. One day, I asked him what it was about, and he told me it was just like Chitty. It was a kind of magic car that - I can still r......more

Immanuel Kant is the kind of guy who not only sucks all of the joy out of life; he takes great pleasure in opening the spigot of your happiness-tank and watching it all spill out onto the burn-out lawn and sink into the earth -- seeping toward the planet's molten, pitiless core and, thereupon, towar......more

It is done. I have finally scaled the sheer surface of this work. It involved continual toil, sweat, and suffering—falling down and picking myself up again. But, when you reach the end, when your eyes finally hit the bottom of that final paragraph, the feeling is momentous. You can stand and look do......more

Have we not learned anything? Those who claim to understand without having actually understood and proceed to provide commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason, a work which draws the line for dogmatists, may be said to be dogmatists. Curious, though, that a critique of reason, albeit pure reason,......more