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Kenneth Smith Study Group, Contra Kant 2000 Week 1

We prepared for philosopher Kenneth Smith's 2021-03-09 Contra Kant seminar by reading his essay from 2000, but his self-critical drive caused him to pull a switcheroo on us and instead present a rewrite of the introduction of that paper, which he's now calling section 1. A two-page intro to Kant became a twelve-page dive into Kant's role in European history. Smith is now rewriting the subsequent five sections of the 2000 paper as well, and will in due course give presentations about them, too. But in the meantime, we have an opportunity to conduct amongst ourselves the seminar we prepared for, to discuss the 2000 paper. It introduces Kant and five other writers' responses to him: Hegel, Mark, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka. Despite his dissatisfactions with the brevity of the 2000 paper, it is after all the classic Kenneth Smith philosophical approach to teach multiple philosophers by having them examine each others' works, role-playing each philosopher faithfully, to illuminate their debates over the issues. This is one of his methods philosophy students most enjoyed at universities, and this paper gives us just a taste of it. Six philosophers in three hours debating Kant's philosophy is a lot to cover, but it also sounds like a lot of fun, forcing them each to get right to the point, a sort of philosophical tasting menu organized around the theme of Kant's philosophy. And for anyone feeling overprepared for next Monday and wanting a challenge, the opening paragraph of the 2000 paper suggests a second way to approach it, using another classic Kenneth Smith method, in which whole works from other writers are harnessed to the core argument, so that each lecture or paper also serves as a bibliography for an entire course of philosophy, just following up on the works referenced. So, if we like, we might put this essay in a stronger context by doing some of the supplementary reading: "Kant and Goethe are the two titans who cast the biggest shadows across the 19th century, and Kant certainly into the 20th as well. Schiller was the great mediator between the two as paradigms respectively of leftftbrained and rightbrained thinking (phasis or noesis, and gnosis), and indeed his Letters on the Esthetic Education of Man was lauded by Hegel as the finest work in philosophy ever written by an amateur. Cassirer’s Rousseau, Kant, and Goethe is a superb brief treatment of the background these thinkers contributed to the culture. Both books are indispspensable, as is Richard Kroner’s Kant’s Weltanschauung and of course Karl Löwith’s From Hegel to Nietzsche."