# Fuck you, Immanuel Kant!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 18, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910 "2007-11-18T07:34:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/21 "2007-11-18T15:56:22Z")
[QUOTE=capybara]
Link to what we’re mocking? Guess I have to go hunting myself. I started writing a post in defense of Kant and his translator. . .
[/QUOTE]
It’s in the OP. Click the link that says “Parody”.
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### Author:  [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/22 "2007-11-18T16:07:31Z")
My son told me that Kant assures the common man that his perceptions of philosophy are correct, in words the common man can never understand.
Tris
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### Author:  [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/23 "2007-11-18T16:31:05Z")
Kritik der Reinen Vernunft? More like Kritik der Reinen Dumkopf.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/24 "2007-11-18T18:17:48Z")
“What do you get when you cross a Sicilian with Kant? An offer you can’t understand.”
-my Philosophy prof in college
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/25 "2007-11-18T18:59:45Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink]
“What do you get when you cross a Sicilian with Kant? An offer you can’t understand.”
-my Philosophy prof in college
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😃 That’s pretty funny!
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/26 "2007-11-19T04:05:10Z")
What can you expect of a man who never traveled ten miles from his home town, and presumed to teach geography?
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/27 "2007-11-19T04:34:47Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
What can you expect of a man who never traveled ten miles from his home town, and presumed to teach geography?
[/QUOTE]
“Those who can’t do, teach.”
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Cream\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Joe)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/28 "2007-11-19T22:12:01Z")
Well, the link is a parody and I like parodies. But Kant didn’t write it, so what’s with the **Fuck you, Immanuel Kant!**?
Grow up.
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### Author:  [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/29 "2007-11-19T22:37:29Z")
The links in the OP are not parodies; Immanuel Kant really did write the material excerpted in English translation in the first link. Rather, the OP itself is a parody. **Liberal** is not really mad at or dismissive of Immanuel Kant. His target is actually people who create context-less one- or two-line OPs with links to large pieces of exposition to be waded through for uncertain reward, with no summary of what the point of discussion is meant to be. That is, he’s mocking the practices in the final two links of his OP.
Sorry to spoil the joke with explicitness, but people seem to need it.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/30 "2007-11-19T22:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=Leviosaurus]
You’d get nowhere with that fucker Wiggenstein (sic) in the room, lemme tell ya.
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Are you referring to early Wittgenstein or the late Wittgenstein? 😕
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/31 "2007-11-19T22:51:56Z")
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
The links in the OP are not parodies; Immanuel Kant really did write the material excerpted in English translation in the first link. Rather, the OP itself is a parody. **Liberal** is not really mad at or dismissive of Immanuel Kant. His target is actually people who create context-less one- or two-line OPs with links to large pieces of exposition to be waded through for uncertain reward, with no summary of what the point of discussion is meant to be. That is, he’s mocking the practices in the final two links of his OP.
Sorry to spoil the joke with explicitness, but people seem to need it.
[/QUOTE]
Who cares? Fuck Kant anyway. His [categorical imperative](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant#Moral_philosophy) is fundamentally unsound. Situational ethics, dude!
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/32 "2007-11-19T22:53:11Z")
Special thanks to \*\*Randy Seltzer \*\* and, always, **Indistinguishable**.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/33 "2007-11-19T22:55:05Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Who cares? Fuck Kant anyway. His [categorical imperative](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant#Moral_philosophy) is fundamentally unsound. Situational ethics, dude!
[/QUOTE]
That’s why I love Christ’s categorical imperative: “Be perfect”. It should work in every circumstance. 🙂
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### Author:  [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/34 "2007-11-19T22:57:35Z")
Who wants to bet that that chicken Kant doesn’t even show up to defend himself in this thread?
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Cream\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Joe)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/35 "2007-11-19T23:10:12Z")
**Indistinguishable** , thanks for clearing that up. Being new to this board, I obviously do not understand some of the nuances and past histories here.
And to compound my felony, I did not recognize “Notice of Parody” as actual links to previous posts.
My apologies to everyone but the inhabitants of the Delta Quadrant.
I never did like them.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/36 "2007-11-19T23:19:28Z")
Okay, for guests and newcomers, the tradition (and I believe, the rule) is that parodies must be posted in the Pit and that they must be identified as parodies. That’s why the extra two links.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/37 "2007-11-19T23:20:10Z")
If Immanuel had been an American, he would have changed his name to Immanuel CAN!
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### Author:  [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/38 "2007-11-19T23:29:44Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
If Immanuel had been an American, he would have changed his name to Immanuel CAN!
[/QUOTE]
If Immanuel had been a mere I. Can, the whole orientation of Kantinental philosophy would likely be drastically changed.
[QUOTE=Ice Cream Joe]
**Indistinguishable** , thanks for clearing that up. Being new to this board, I obviously do not understand some of the nuances and past histories here.
[/QUOTE]
No problem; you’ll pick it up fast enough. Welcome to the boards!
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### Author:  [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/39 "2007-11-20T00:14:27Z")
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
If Immanuel had been a mere I. Can, the whole orientation of Kantinental philosophy would likely be drastically changed.
[/QUOTE]
It would move and reshape, then? Kantinental Drift?
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-immanuel-kant/426910/40 "2007-11-20T00:50:46Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
If Immanuel had been an American, he would have changed his name to Immanuel CAN!
[/QUOTE]
But the French would have called him Idiot [Fries](http://www.friesian.com/friesian.htm).
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