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The most hilarious part of Kant's work to me is in his anthropology.
In a footnote he said that there's two ways of studying it: in the first degree, by traveling and meeting people, and I'm the second degree by reading books by traveled people.
But Kant never traveled so he can study antropology in the first degree. So he adds a clause saying that if one lives in a busy port city (like Kant) one can study antropology in the first degree as all the people of the world travel to your city.
I find that level of pettiness from one of the greatest philosophers very endearing
"pityness"? Even pithiness I don't get your meaning.
I think it's supposed to be "pettiness"
There person that reacted earlier got it right