Kant didn’t give a fuck. And I mean that in the truest and profoundest sense of the phrase.10 He is the only thinker I have ever come across who eschewed hope and the flawed human values it relied upon; who confronted the Uncomfortable Truth and refused to accept its horrible implications; who gazed into the abyss with nothing but logic and pure reason; who, armed with only the brilliance of his mind, stood before the gods and challenged them . . . . . . and somehow won.
