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Categorical imperative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

I had to read The Critique of Pure Reason in college. I found it very difficult. I know there's a big argument about the primacy of time and space in there somewhere. Something about manifolds and a priori knowledge. There's also some about whether and how we can have knowledge of things-in-themselves.

I found his political science work like on the perpetual peace theory easier to digest.

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I had trouble with all the German philosophers outside of Heidegger and Nietzsche and Jaspers. Kant, Fitchte, Schedlling, GWF Hegel. All gave me headaches somehow. Basically the broader German Idealism movement.

Fichte was the singular most confounding thing I ever had to read. I took a 400 level course in German idealism. His Wissenschaftslehre is, to this day, the hardest thing I ever read.