Status Updates From Η κατηγορηματική προσταγή: ...

Αναρωτιέμαι αν ο Paton έγραψε κάτι αυτοαναφορικό, ορισμένως είναι ενδιαφέρων στοχαστής.

Μακάρι να διατηρήσω την ίδια παθιάρικη διάθεση τελειώνοντας το, να ξαναπροσπαθήσω με τον Καντ απ' ευθείας.

Chapters XXIV and XXV went down more smoothly than i expected. Only one chapter to go but i don't wanna finish this book: i'm surely ill-prepared to handle Critique of Practical Reason (the logical next step) *or* Critique of Pure Reason (the grandpappy of 'em all?!), so what the hell could i possibly read next?

Wow, i really thought i'd plowed through a significant portion of the book last night, but it was only 34 pages. At least some of it seemed to make immediate sense.

Oil:Water :: Formal logic:My mind. I think i'd have to read this book 10 times before the bookmakers would set the line at EVEN for whether i can retain a shred of its/Kant's logic. Depressing, but i'm not ready to quit yet.

Further to my previous status update comment, there might *be* no undeniable proof for Kant's best ideas about morality; we might be obliged to settle for saying they're self-evident, or that they're merely preferable to all other moralities (all of which also rest upon adherent-proclaimed self-evident propositions). I want my suspicions to be wrong, though.

I doubt i'll ever be able to confidently (and accurately) say that i fully comprehend Kant's arguments. I think i understand his main points, but i do NOT get his attempt to prove that they're logically valid.

I love the book's organization. If only i had a little more time today, i could finish the "Approach to the Categorical Imperative" (aka Book I).