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How well does Kant fit in with the others? Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Sartre all had a will to destroy the older institutions of socieity. Did Kant? Did Machiavelli? Love him or hate him, Kant was thrown off balance by Hume's skepticism and was trying to right himself and find some foundation for knowledge. He probably took the wrong path, but his instinct wasn't to destroy but to save something from the general destruction of skepticism.

Machiavelli, as a father of pragmatism, fits well with Nietzsche's 'will to power'. His atheism with most of the others.

Kant, doesn't fit in that he sought to restore the dignity of man in an increasingly impersonal world. But his attempt to push aside reason "to make room for faith" backfired. And his nickname wasn't "The Destroyer" for nothing...;->

Courtesy of Monty Python,

"Ohhhhh, Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as shloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietszche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato they say could stick it away,
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a buggar for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
'I drink, therefore I am!'

Yes Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)