perhaps you think i exaggerate when i call kant a monster of ego. i'm working on an essay on philosophy and ego (nietzsche: 'why i am a destiny'), and i'm gathering quotes. here's one from k:
This path—the only one now remaining—has been entered upon by me; and I flatter myself that I have, in this way, discovered the cause of—and consequently the mode of removing—all the errors which have hitherto set reason at variance with itself, in the sphere of non-empirical thought. I have not returned an evasive answer to the questions of reason, by alleging the inability and limitation of the faculties of the mind; I have, on the contrary, examined them completely in the light of principles, and, after having discovered the cause of the doubts and contradictions into which reason fell, have solved them to its perfect satisfaction.
--Critique of Pure Reason
no academic discipline can possibly have produced the egomaniacs that we have. if you met someone who was talking like that, you'd be all, damn son. it's more like rappers or boxers: they all fall. i am the greatest of all time!
