If you look through the Names like Kant, Hegel, Heidegger etc. People often see great men who brought Mankind into a new era of civilisation.

But the truth is that most of them were full weirdos and scums.

Kant was a racist
Hegel was a racist
Heidegger was a full NAZI memeber and racist
Voltaire was a racist
Hannah Arendt defended segregation (as a holocaust survivor)
Aristoteles was sexist
Hume defended slavery and saw it as necessary

@Synopsis Hegel

Imagine thinking anyone 2-3 generations back wasn't

camus wins again

The worst is probably De Sade.

pedo s***offender

Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe

Meh, its really not fair to judge figures from history on this basis

rumi, avicenna, Lao tze, Socrates and Konfuzius >>>

what if your first two sentences are both partially true tho

If we are to make moral judgements, they must be based on the culture at that time. The opinions are abhorrent but not in that context

how are you sure the people u admire arent scum?

Don't think de Sade was a philosopher my guy

how

Literally everyone was racist back then because that was the norm so I’m not sure what the point is here

Man i sure hope these things haven't been addressed and written about at length over the past 30 years, or else this thread might be pointless

Shakespeare criticized slavery and colonialism in The Tempest a hundred years before Kant was playing with his little pink toes.

well their admired for their philosophical ideas not their racism or sexism

can we talk about greek philosophers too these f***ing annoying f***s would debate for hours on subjects they knew nothing about and we still have to study them today this is bullshit democritus knew NOTHING about atoms but he wrote a s*** ton of books on them and ppl read them in big 2021

Pretty sure in that same play Shakespeare also indulged in some antisemitism

yeah f*** kant forreal
im half german so we talked about him a lot in our philosophy classes. could never stand his pretentious ass

Dude's best known work is basically a novel. And with the book's contents, is it really a surprise he's a scumbag? sadism is literally name after him

well Kant got a trash ass ideology so wouldn't be surprised if he's scum lmao

Even though he aint a philosoph Martin Luther also someone whos still admired in germany, but was full scum againt jews

Kinda ironic how MLK changed his name after him, even though he was a f***ing lunatic.