Within months of his proposal in the Black Sea just off Sinope, the Russian Navy sank an ottoman fleet, and the Crimean war began. Immanuel 's invention was suddenly in high demand, and the newly established Nobel armaments factory quickly grew from a few dozen employees to over 1,000, producing mines, torpedoesand other explosives for the Russian military.
But Alfred saw beyond their beauty to the microscopic holes in their exoskeletons. Immanuel became obsessed with death, often rambling to Alfred about strange inventions, including a scheme to build a network of underground tubes
And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people. Immanuel Kant's maxims, I mean, are very similar to the golden rule.
He opened the first ever rubber factory in Sweden and invented the rotary lathe, which made modern plywood possible. But Immanuel struggled with business. He went bankrupt shortly after Alfred was born.
He went bankrupt shortly after Alfred was born. So Immanuel set off to Russia to start over, leaving his family behind. Some of Alfred's earliest memories were of watching his brothers sell matches on the street corners of Stockholm just to afford food.
In the early 1850s, the great powers of Europe were gearing up for war. And Immanuel spotted an opportunity. He realized Russia's capital was vulnerable to attack from the sea.
the human story. That's why I refer to us as a species with amnesia. And when I use that phrase, I need to give credit to Immanuel Velikovsky, who wrote a book called Mankind in Amnesia. I think we are a species with amnesia. I think we have forgotten something very important in our own past. And when I turn to the experts, I find much of what they say
Evolution-- humans are products of a competitive process which selects for reproductive success not well-being. As Immanuel Kant, that great Enlightenment thinker, put it, "Out of the crooked timber of humanity no truly straight thing can be built." The third theme is humanism-- that the ultimate moral purpose is to reduce the suffering and enhance the flourishing of human beings and other sentient
That's actually a view that has many antecedents in the history of philosophy, one way or another. Even Immanuel Kant and his great critique of pure reason had a section where he talked about the self or the soul as a transcendental illusion.
But it's very important that we have this idea of the focus imaginarius. The 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant describes the focus imaginarius as such. It is something that you know very well what it looks like.
induction, we have to challenge those. Because to paraphrase Immanuel Kant, we don't see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.
In other words, we each see the world through our own boxes, through our own lenses. And this is Immanuel Kant's favorite cartoon-- would have been. Here's another example.
But instead what happened is after about eight to ten minutes of their vibrant discussions, I was sort of able to say, "Okay, the two-thirds of you who are defending this are arguing on behalf of Immanuel Kant's notion of this thing that he called reciprocal retrividivism, where we ought to mete out punishments as closely as possible to the crimes or actions that were committed. And instead of the, the wincing and the etching it, it was this sense of "tell me more, tell me more".
like her ugly shirt?" You discuss what a consequentialist would say about that and what a deontological ethicist would recommend. So like what would Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant say about this moral dilemma for the ages? Well, yeah, that chapter is specifically about Kant.
but also contributed to deaths of tens of thousands of people, unleashing a level of destruction that would come to define him. Alfred's father, Immanuel was also an inventor. He opened the first ever rubber factory in Sweden and invented the rotary lathe, which made modern plywood possible.
They're a bit exaggerated and mixing up stimulating different parts of the brain. Indeed, Immanuel Kant, the philosopher, argued this is what's underlying proper aesthetic enjoyment.
has been yoked to childhood. In 1798, Immanuel Kant noticed of nostalgia sufferers, Hutcheon tells us, that people who did return home were usually disappointed, because in fact they did not want to return to a place but to a time, a time of youth.
and other explosives for the Russian military. With money now pouring in, Immanuel decided to invest in Alfred's education. At the age of 17, Alfred found himself in a lab in Paris studying under the world's greatest chemists.
But when the Crimean war ended in 1856, the Russian government refused to honor the contracts they'd signed during the war. So the Nobel factory was forced to shut down, and Immanuel went bankrupt for the second time. Alfred later wrote that his father was, quote, "A man of genius, but a failure all the same." And so Alfred goes back to Sweden
But Alfred saw beyond their beauty to the microscopic holes in their exoskeletons. His father never recovered from Emil's death and just weeks after the explosion in Stockholm, Immanuel suffered a stroke.
And there's a lot of very odd conclusions that it leads to. And then the last one is deontological thought, most closely associated with Immanuel Kant. And he sort of thought, like, happiness or any kind of emotion is irrelevant to the concept of morality.
Globalization was going to create a borderless world of unlimited prosperity and unassailable human rights. Progress would reach its consummation in a utopia of perpetual peace of the kind hoped for by Immanuel Kant in the late 18th century-- seems like a very long time ago now.
since then and the rate of death of genocide has gone bumpily downward and in the last decade is in fact at a low for the century. What would the immediate causes of the Long Peace and the New Peace? Three possibilities were put forward by Immanuel Kant more than 200 years ago in his essay, Perpetual Peace, where he argued democracy, trade and an international community were all forces that would disincentivize nations from warring with each other. More recently Bruce Russett and John Oneal have tested Kant's theory in a large regression
It's not by choice. We are organisms. And if there's anything that distinctively marks off the difference between the organic and the inorganic, is its capacity for, as Immanuel Kant put it,
Now I've tried the other approach: "Welcome students, take your seats. Today, get your pencils out I want you to write this term down we're going to talk about Immanuel Kant's notion of reciprocal retrividivism." And they're etching it into their notebooks.