philosophy geek rant
Oct. 12th, 2004 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wisdomeagleOMG I haaate Kant. I'm just... livid. I am outraged by Kant's theology. I mean, I hate Kant's metaphysics in a very abstract, theoretical, must be a theory geek to understand sort of way.
And everyone hates Kant's moral theory.
But Kant's theology just leaves me livid. I quote from The Little Book o' Kanty Goodness:
"The worship due to God becomes reverence and devotion for the moral law. The faith that transcends belief becomes the certainty of practical reason that surpasses understanding. The object of esteem is not the Supreme Being, but the supreme attribute of rationality." -Roger Scruton. Kant: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2001. (97)
That offends me so profoundly I can hardly even articulate how much I cannot stand that... God. MY GOD. My God whom I love and adore and venerate and worship and sing to and praise and whose beloved I am, who is my beloved, who loved the world so much that God took human form for me, is reduced to.. to moral law. To something that fits nicely into Kant's nice frelling little system where everything is divided into three little parts and there's the synthetic a priori that's just soooo beautiful and... Oh. my. GOD. HATE KANT.
Hate Kant and his stupid removal of all humanity, all emotion, all love from everything. Stupid bitter lonely dead white guy.
It's people like him who encourage feminist philosophers to go to the other extreme.
I go scream now. And see if I can find the Sox being slaughtered on TV. If there's one thing I hate more than Kant, it's the Yankees.
And everyone hates Kant's moral theory.
But Kant's theology just leaves me livid. I quote from The Little Book o' Kanty Goodness:
"The worship due to God becomes reverence and devotion for the moral law. The faith that transcends belief becomes the certainty of practical reason that surpasses understanding. The object of esteem is not the Supreme Being, but the supreme attribute of rationality." -Roger Scruton. Kant: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2001. (97)
That offends me so profoundly I can hardly even articulate how much I cannot stand that... God. MY GOD. My God whom I love and adore and venerate and worship and sing to and praise and whose beloved I am, who is my beloved, who loved the world so much that God took human form for me, is reduced to.. to moral law. To something that fits nicely into Kant's nice frelling little system where everything is divided into three little parts and there's the synthetic a priori that's just soooo beautiful and... Oh. my. GOD. HATE KANT.
Hate Kant and his stupid removal of all humanity, all emotion, all love from everything. Stupid bitter lonely dead white guy.
It's people like him who encourage feminist philosophers to go to the other extreme.
I go scream now. And see if I can find the Sox being slaughtered on TV. If there's one thing I hate more than Kant, it's the Yankees.
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Date: 2004-10-13 02:17 am (UTC)How are you defining feminism in this context, out of curiousity? What makes Kant's idea any less "feminist" than viewing God in an emotional manner? Or are you referring to the Enlightenment philosophers' very unenlightened views of women in general?
That offends me so profoundly I can hardly even articulate how much I cannot stand that... God. MY GOD. My God whom I love and adore and venerate and worship and sing to and praise and whose beloved I am, who is my beloved, who loved the world so much that God took human form for me, is reduced to.. to moral law.
Can God not be both things? My personal opinion has always been that there is room for both interpretations in the nature of God. W.H. Auden, for example, was drawn to Christianity because it was a belief system that provided a moral order in a world without one. From your writing, I can see that you're drawn to the emotional aspects of the religion. People need different things from God.
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Date: 2004-10-13 02:54 am (UTC)Faith is an abyss, and if you do not jump into it, if you cling by your very nails to reason, as kant does, you will never understand it.
God is not reasonable. God makes the impossible possible.
Kant is much too reasonable for his own good.
kant=suck
Date: 2004-10-13 05:37 pm (UTC)hope you got sleep anyway.
am very upset over last sentence of post. ;) so NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
<3 to the reness.
-z (who will get off her lazy ass and register an lj of her own sooner or later...)