Look, I love Dostoyevsky as much as anyone (no, seriously), but I don’t think that his intuitions about human society were particularly apt at the time (though his intuitions about human psychology were brilliant and prescient), and I think he has virtually nothing to contribute to modern futurism. Ditto for Kant, except that I don’t think any of his stuff is relevant to us.
Ditto for Kant, except that I don’t think any of his stuff is relevant to us.
I think Kant had significantly more intuitions about human psychology that turned out to be correct. For example, I’ve spoken before about the mental rotation task, and it shows that at least some of Kant’s claims about the human perception of space are more than mere typical mind fallacy. There’s also some movements in the direction of—shall we say “universal anthropology”—near the beginning of the Critique of Judgment that are more or less borne out by current knowledge of primitive symbolism.
Naturally the bits about God and deontology are hopelessly wrong, but it’s not all terrible.
Exactly. Disregarding the failure of deontologism, we must salvage everything valuable from its ruins, especially if that’s something that could protect us from what we might unleash on ourselves.
Look, I love Dostoyevsky as much as anyone (no, seriously), but I don’t think that his intuitions about human society were particularly apt at the time (though his intuitions about human psychology were brilliant and prescient), and I think he has virtually nothing to contribute to modern futurism. Ditto for Kant, except that I don’t think any of his stuff is relevant to us.
I think Kant had significantly more intuitions about human psychology that turned out to be correct. For example, I’ve spoken before about the mental rotation task, and it shows that at least some of Kant’s claims about the human perception of space are more than mere typical mind fallacy. There’s also some movements in the direction of—shall we say “universal anthropology”—near the beginning of the Critique of Judgment that are more or less borne out by current knowledge of primitive symbolism.
Naturally the bits about God and deontology are hopelessly wrong, but it’s not all terrible.
Exactly. Disregarding the failure of deontologism, we must salvage everything valuable from its ruins, especially if that’s something that could protect us from what we might unleash on ourselves.