As far as the Catholic ‘Americanist’ priest, Isaac Hecker, was concerned, when Kant had asked the question, ‘what can I know?’ and answered it with, ‘I can know nothing’, he was in fact supporting the only logical conclusion there was to his scepticism: the existence of God. Life without God in this world was anchored…
Category: Philosophical influences
The Pink-Suited Polytropoi – The Philosophy of Nietzsche and The Great Gatsby
There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby’s enormous house,so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour — The Great Gatsby If it had been Immanuel Kant instead of old ‘Owl Eyes’ studying the books in Gatsby’s library, it’s possible he would have concluded…