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The twentieth century qualifies as the most violent century in human history. Such violence arose from two powerful intellectual and political movements - nazism and communism - which had both originated in Germany. I have been trying to show in my latest posts that both movements had their roots in the ideas of Kant.

What Kant did was to take morality out of God's hands and put it in the hands of the crowd. This was a most dangerous move, as the history of Germany in the twentieth century abundantly shows, and the history of the USA is showing in the twenty-first century. The US preemptive war on Iraq is a typical case of Protestant or Kantian morality: the crowd decided it, therefore it is morally right.

What really puzzles me is the standing of Kant in modern philosophy. Thus, the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy concludes its entry on Kant saying: "In spite of the notorious difficulty of reading Kant, made worse for his penchant for scholastic systematization and obscure terminology, his place as the greatest philosopher of the last three hundred years is well assured".

I believe this is real bullshit and it only confirms the attraction and admiration the crowd usually feels for what it does not understand. In my view Kant did not write clearly for the same reason any vulgar man does not write or speak clearly and that is when what they have to say is mostly intellectual fraud or they simply don't know what they are talking about (for an example see here Kant on the principle of duty)