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Criticism, scepticism, and (as the extreme form) nihilism are historically justified as well but lack of solutions - that’s tautological, because they are what they are: criticism, scepticism, nihilism. The solutions come from history itself. The “next Kant” will come in about 2000 years or will not come (because humans will be too stupid or not live anymore).
And by the way: The ILP Nietzschean(ist)s are more than the ILP Kantian(ist)s. The majority is always right? No!
In modern times critique is very fashionable and popular, but it makes a philosopher not necessarily, not automatically better or even greater. In the first place critique is only critique; in the second place it may lead to a philosophical system, and it did in Kant’s case, but it did not in all cases after Hegel, thus it also did not in the cases Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
Erik asked: “Who is the better philosopher?” He did not ask: “Who is the better sympathiser?”
Persoanlly I can say (for example): “I am not a Kantian, I am not a Hegelian, I am not a Schopenhauerian / Nietzschean / Sloterdijkian” or the reverse; but as an Occidental human I have to say: “I am a Kantian, and I am a Hegelian”, because Kant and Hegel have influenced the Occidental culture vehemently but Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Sloterdijk merely a little bit.
When the German chancellor Helmut Schmidt met the Chinese communistic leader Mao Tsetung (Zedong) in the middle 1970’s, Mao Tsetung said to him: “You are a Kantian”; and Helmut Schmidt responded: “Yes, and you are a Konfuzian (Confucian)”. Kant is typical Occidental, Konfuzius (Confucius) is typical Chinese - each of both influenced his culture more than anyone else of his culture. And by the way: Mao Tsetung, although he was a communist (thus an ideologist of an Occidental ideology), did not contradict Helmut Schmidt.
Now, please replace Kantian by Nietzschean and Konfuzian by Hanfeizian …! Do you even know the last one?
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[size=114]Moral:
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Note: Kant’s Categorical Imperative is expandable.
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[size=114]Modern Occidental imperatives:
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(1) “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.”
(2) “Be revolutionary.”
(3) “Trust in the absolute spirit and the dialectic processes.”
(4) “Relinquish.”
(5) “Be yourself.”
(6) “Persevere.”
(7) “Be autarkic as much as you can.”
(8) “Take care of you, your relatives and dependants, your surrounding and ecolgical environment.”
(9) “Participate in the discourse.”
(10) “Take care of your foam, because you live in it.”
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(I) “Clarify, Verify, Instill, and Reinforce the Perception of Hopes and Threats unto Anentropic Harmony.”
(II) “Do unto yourself and others as you’d do unto yourself if you were them.”
(III) “The important thing is KINDNESS.”
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