Immanuel Kant

The first lecture in a series on German Philosophers features Immanuel Kant and his influence on the history of philosophy. Presented by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College.
Handout and other lectures available at www.wescecil.com

[@NightDoge]

"I almost started the lecture series with Kant, but if anybody ever read any Kant will know why I didn’t." He's finally done it. Only took Wes 7 years to get to Kant.

[@RaykouKun]

This madman has gone and done it, he's lecturing on Kant.

[@bensaylor9093]

Dude don't even get me started. I cannot believe how consistently INCREDIBLE these lectures are.

[@mementocatharsis9372]

You guys know how much freaking stuff you got to read to be able to understand Kants reference- reference- reference- style of writing? It's ridiculous. Wes is a madman indeed! Lol. No way in hell I'd have the determination to do that. You can always tell when someone has the flow because they utilize their many abilities with ease.

[@Dayglodaydreams]

I still like Hegel better.

[@enlightenedturtle9507]

@@mementocatharsis9372 what are you talking about?

[@bensaylor9093]

Hey, Wes, I hope you see this- I've listened to your lectures for years, since before the Forgotten Thinkers series. You've inspired me to go back to college and become a philosophy and literature professor. You're an intellectual hero of mine, and I wanted to say thanks for doing what you do. I hope to attend many of your talks in the near future.

[@IvanVesely920]

Have you attended? :-)

[@JudyFayLondon]

Congrats and hope you did attend to his lectures.

[@cheri238]

​@JudyFayLondon I hope he did also. I read that Professor Cecil was ill lately. And now he is giving his lectures again..

[@isabelpimentel-pardi6336]

Never stop showing!!!! I am always on line waiting!

[@Bookthief666]

Immanuel Kant, but at least Immanuel tried. ✋😃

[@maxstirner8717]

Manuel Orrantia You deserve a drink: it’s your imperative

[@HxH2011DRA]

LMFAO

[@kaiserrino8774]

Großartig.

[@randyfarnsworth7825]

So much for World travel having an impact on philosophy

[@ka-bapraxis5887]

🤣😂😁

[@TheKanjified]

I still remember at the beginning of your Nietzsche lecture, 7 years ago, you saying that you'll get to Kant someday. Well here it is!

[@philiplindecker6628]

I love Kant. It really takes a while to wrap your head around his ideas, and how he worded them, but if you can it's glorious.

[@SeventhRisk]

OMG He's doing it! It's the Kant lecture!

[@multiplescrotums774]

Thank you for helping me understand that what cannot be understood

[@MrWhite-bm9np]

It's good to break up a Key and Peele binge with a little Wess 👍

[@mementocatharsis9372]

Thow in some Whitest Kids You Know and Academy of Ideas and you got my youtube.

[@rememberingtruth]

fuc yo

[@TheKanjified]

In the John Locke lecture Wes stated that Lock gave a token and specious argument that God must exist. Is Kant's argument of "You can't reason your way to God, but you can't reason your way out of God either" basically the same thing?

[@rauldempaire5330]

Awesome lecture! Thank you

[@Riverofnaamjaap2910]

Your lectures are amazing!

[@user-lr6yq6il7m]

Great lecture, thank you!!

[@MichaelBNegron]

Been waiting for this one for a long time, Wes! Was not disappointed :)

[@felipe741]

This guy is a great teacher

[@cheri238]

BRAVO 👏

[@zhouma8682]

Fantastic!

[@zorbagreek5556]

going to be most watched lecture here..

[@PWizz91]

35k subs... dude, you deserve so many more

[@dennisrlecker6650]

Thank you, Wes Cecil.... I've been negligent with regard to your lectures... Where's your Patreon? You're worth it.

[@k2dab88]

Since you have a lecture on Schopenhauer: At 39:19 min you point out, that "if you're a king, this is not a good idea". Schopenhauer pointed out, that Kant could only do his thinking and writing under the Philosophy King Friedrich II. Under any other monarch he wouldn't have had the freedom to spread these kind of thoughts.

[@apricus3155]

Point noted. Friedrich 2 was open to ideas of the french revolution?

[@apricus3155]

Can you give me some good Deutsch kanals. I've been looking for them. And political kanals too.

[@k2dab88]

@@apricus3155 That he was. For example Voltaire lived for several years with Friedrich II. in his castle Sanssouci. Friedrich II. also spoke french in his castle.

[@alan2here]

So in a field of small losses any wins (of 2x or greater?) and large losses are the most memorable, and this could be from hunter gather times rather than because they are unusual outliers. All this may all explain why a 50% chance of winning back twice your stake is (probably) more interesting in a game than a 75% chance of winning 4/3rds of it.

[@walkerweber9611]

we must recognize within ourselves the tendency to view things with a prejudiced eye and know they are idiosyncrasies. moulds of past thinking are hard to break because they make the barrier of your mind preventing the free expansion of life within. limitations of the mind save you from madness until your mind "hatches"

[@ItsCronk]

Perfect timing for my exam in human geography, thanks Wes!

[@maxstirner8717]

I Kant stop getting Debussy

[@user-zr6wr5lb4g]

Thanks for being good at speaking

[@seggszaft]

Thanks for the asmr

[@eScooterRidesPerth]

Mind explosions!!!

[@maxstirner8717]

If you’re covering all the Germans - whence forth cometh my arch nemeses?

[@aguirremarvin]

Max Stirner If you’re talking about Marx, he has already covered him.

[@maxstirner8717]

IamAwesome He needs to do it again

[@chainsherlock6268]

So cool

[@maverickhusky4165]

Did you skip lecture 16b of History in 16 questions?

[@Israel2.3.2]

Let's not forget the famous Göttingen school of mathematics.

[@Rico-Suave_]

Watched all of it 56:49

[@pinosantilli8297]

How in the hell can I know what I can and cannot know?

[@XNaruto25]

Kant be first

[@yadhua334]

Kant not see what you did there

[@maxstirner8717]

I followed his quote the whole way through - but I still don’t understand what the hell he’s talking about

[@nicolasnavia8780]

it's not that difficult if you put effort, you gotta know what he means with every word, then it gets easier cause he doesn't add too many weird concepts

[@nicolasnavia8780]

also read every paragraph at least three times and feel like a king when u finish the book after a year and a half

[@nicolasnavia8780]

also, ur better than Karl, keep it up Maxie

[@Dayglodaydreams]

Bro, Leibniz is German.

[@koroglurustem1722]

Oh Kant 🤣

[@pinosantilli8297]

Maybe Kant feared that without religion humanity would fail? He knew what was coming with existentialism, scientistism, and post modernism and nihilism. So I ask everyone do humans NEED to believe in something that is intangible or simply constructed? Maybe?

[@johnstewart7025]

Perhaps we need to have an ideal or standard for our behavior and our aspirations. By definition, this ideal would not exist here in the real world.

[@pinosantilli8297]

John Stewart yes! We must create our “reality”. Well I think that is what freedom is all about!

[@HxH2011DRA]

The pinnacle of impracticality

[@a.n.c.australia]

Is that even possible?? Of course it isn't. Be atheistic if you want, but find out everything because you've got the best approximation for an Oracle right there :) So suppose you're atheistic, you'll say these people are in fact crazy. I'll say their reasoning has been affected, sort of like a person that is unable to see with one of their eyes. And I'm not referring to Slick Rick, because that guy is a genius :) The book of Job is very much like this type of "trials." I do attribute that book to the foundation of the entire Existentialist School. I found out about the structure of the Earth when I was studying in Tamaki, Auckland, taking a course on Karnaugh Maps, and having a coffee with an awesome lady that told me about MC Escher's Ants painting :)

[@TheKaveramma]

When you said that he abused grammar.. could it be that a language was not up to his thought processes... language has been evolving and ideas can be way ahead of grammar and languages. I believe it's very difficult for a philosopher to put an idea in words because one has to even think beyond it. if I have to say nobody would understand a real philosopher.

[@abrahamamani9888]

Damn all he had to do was close his eyes 👀

[@alan2here]

Interesting, not so into this ones ideas though. Kant - "You are (free to want to)/(free if you want to) do as we (king, god, establishment, etc…) tell you. If you have no agency, then you have complete freedom. Why not give the endless (indescribable yet I'm describing it) everything a nice neutral name, how about 'god'." Apart from anything else, part of that is literally vacuous. If your set is empty then as well as having all of it's members, you also equally have none of it's members (no freedom).

[@pinosantilli8297]

Kant is correct that our minds do have built in faculties. Take this for instance, how do we know and experience music? Do dogs know and experience music like we do? Can someone answer me?

[@mishutoful]

But at least Immanuel tried

[@Adam-ui3ot]

The attack on this man is unnecessary.

[@pinosantilli8297]

Philosophy is about everything!

[@pinosantilli8297]

Kant was mostly interested in epistemology (creating a foundation of what we can and cannot know) that is why he wanted to be rigorous. Not sure though if we have limits to what we can and cannot know. That is an odd way of thinking.

[@pauljuliano166]

Hey Wes I hope you see this- I did some fact checking and no king of Prussia ever responded to Kant in the way you said, or said the things about Kant you attributed to them. Listening to your "lecture" I am not surprised that you stretch the truth 'cause it just seems like a stream of consciousness rant that acknowledges Kant chiefly through weak attempts at denigration (its amusing that YOU would comment on "academic standards" as you do in your fantasy about how the world responded to Kant). I'd suggest you listen to this lecture yourself and you would probably retire in shame unless you are in it just for the money and ego stroking.

[@calebgoodfellowcg]

It was technically a minister of the king named Wollner who sent him a letter telling him to stop. I got this information in 30 seconds of googling. So maybe don’t be an ass and get so stuck up on Wes’s wording. Maybe the king didn’t personally tell him to stop, but either the king or someone close to him didn’t like it. Either way you’re factually wrong

[@pinosantilli8297]

Good talk tho Wes!

[@pinosantilli8297]

Isn't that what really matters for a person, his/her actions and not his/her thoughts?

[@pjeffries301]

Yikes, the most important philosopher since Aristotle is not worth studying? C'mon Dr. C., maybe you should give it a go. Clearly you haven't.

[@newintellectual.]

All Kant wanted was to save God and the religious morality of altruism from reality. A dishonest, evil yet a genius philosopher.

[@pinosantilli8297]

Well Wes in the end either we are FREE or we are NOT...right? How can we NOT know if we are FREE? The answer is so simple...IF YOU CAN ASK THE QUESTION THEN YOU ARE.

[@Itsatz0]

No wonder Western Civilization is so fucked up.

[@juveriya2622]

From exactly where are we gonna dicuss Kant's racism?

[@enlightenedturtle9507]

Why should we

[@rappakalja5295]

@@enlightenedturtle9507 Because Kant was a thinker, and his thought deserves to be taught and criticized

[@lukedavis6711]

@@rappakalja5295 plato was a great thinker, but I'm not interested in his opinions on cheese

[@rappakalja5295]

@@lukedavis6711 False equivelancy as Kant wrote an entire goddamn treatise on his views about other races, i.e. Kant's racism is a part of his major corpus. Plato to my knowledge didn't write a hundred parchments on soft white rind. You cannot cherry pick ideas when you're discussing the writings of philosopher x.

[@lukedavis6711]

@@rappakalja5295 soft white rind🤣👌

[@salmakisroux8201]

Wes, how come you didn't mention Kant's racist views and writings?

[@pinosantilli8297]

Your bullying Newton. So stop. He was a very unique person and we should respect that. His accomplishments speak for themselves.

[@pinosantilli8297]

George Tufeanu well said. I like Wes He is entertaining and that’s fine. Philosophy is about life our existence so it’s very important. Wes is possibly a post modernist. So that would explain his negativity to modernist philosophy. Hegel may be right that every idea has its opposite. Post modernism is sort of an opposite of modernism. It’s true that Kant is nearly impossible to read and understand for the average person so I’m more than willing to listen to other people’s interpretations of him. It’s important to understand that not everything is True and not everything is subjective and relative.

[@pinosantilli8297]

Kant admitted that he wanted to save the church so he is basically doing what the church itself does..namely... you simply CAN'T know Truth. And this is a BIG mistake!