Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think the only thing you can really say about this argument is that Kant is a *major* influence over virtually all of western thought and that all kinds of ideas are on some level influenced by some of Kant’s themes and arguments. — PolitiTweet.org

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I remember being enrolled in The History of Early Modern Philosophy and thinking “even by the standards of philosophy classes this is *really* not going to have any practical career applications” but it just goes to show life is unpredictable. — PolitiTweet.org

"[W]okism is just one part of a long intellectual shadow cast by Immanuel Kant that still threatens to smother the… https://t.co/jS6CmMXmr1

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But far and away the most straightforward Kantian influence on later racial politics was that he was an early proponent of racism white superiority at a time when (at least as I understand it) that was still a relatively new way of thinking about humanity. — PolitiTweet.org

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