I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekignano show.

Thomas is back and we are continuing the series on continental philosophy.

How are you doing today, Thomas?

Right.

I'm going to talk about Emmanuel Kant today.

Initially, I was going to discuss the Reformation and after providing a background in um aquinas and thomas thought but i'm

going to do that after i conclude the main body of this series for reasons that i think will become

clear as i proceed emmanuel cons fundamentally important to the Enlightenment project.

I mean, the point before that, in my opinion, one of the only purely political theoretical

contributions from the Germans to the Enlightenment Enterprise was Klausowitz.

I stand by that because Kant wasn't a political theorist.

He wrote precious little on politics and direct capacities.

He said he has this enduring and tremendously outsized impact on um on um conceptual um matters relating to a political discourse

which makes sense he was an intellectual giant I'm not this session going to talk about

concepts like the categorical imperative and a pro, re, and a posteriori distinctions,

and the thing in itself as a conceptual postulate.

Those things are tremendously important, but we're getting into very deep metaphysics there.

And things like the anthropic principle, which in my opinion, I've got an epistemological view of politics, among other things.

That's one of the reasons why I hold out Heidegger is so significant,

not just because of his ideas on epistemology and things and political ontology that I view as

systemically and very integral.

You know, it's, uh, because I don't think that politics is, um,reet a domain as you know is is often suggested

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