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"Kant holds that each of us, while being a citizen of an empirically determinate civil order or political state, is also a citizen of a single world community - our attempt to realize on earth the idea of an ethical realm of ends in which all rational beings are accorded a dignity that is beyond price, and all the ends and maxims should harmonize in one systematic combination. This side of Kant's aspiration is...

"Kant's argument depends on taking seriously the idea that the subjective representations through which we acquire a perspectival awareness of the world are never more than seemings. They provide us with indispensable cognitive access to the objective world, but they themselves provide us with no sort of infallible knowledge of that world, nor do they even constitute part of that world."

"Empirically, space and time, and spatio-temporal objects in them, are real. They are not illusions; they are to be distinguished from what, empirically speaking, we call 'mere appearances' (dreams, hallucinations, mirages, and the like). Their empirical reality, however, does not consist in their being things existing in themselves, independently of the conditions under which we cognize them. It consists rather in..

"Before Copernicus, we thought that heavenly bodies moved but we earthly observers were at rest. Now we see that we observers too must be regarded as in motion. Analogously, before Kant we thought that our cognition depended on its objects; but now we must see that the objects we cognize must depend on our mode of cognizing of those objects."

According to Kant "even the unjust commands of a legitimate authority must be obeyed by its subjects (so long as these do not directly command the subject to do something that is in itself wrong or evil)."

But isn't obeying unjust commands and thus participating in the injustice wrong as well?

"He rose regularly at 5 a.m., having only a cup of tea and a pipe of tobacco for breakfast."

Parents lie. Having shitty eating habits can work out well for you! :P