1. “Kant’s Joke—Kant wanted to prove, in a way that would dumbfound the common man, that the common man was right: that was the secret joke of this soul. He wrote against the scholars in support of popular prejudice, but for scholars and not for the people.”(Friedrich Nietzsche)
2. “The ground of proof surely lies in the fact that a man gives up his personality (throws it away) when he uses himself merely as a means for the gratification of an animal drive.”(Immanuel Kant)
3. “Does that mean that all nonconsequentialists need to rethink at least some of their morald commitments? I humbly suggest that the answer is “yes”. … That is, suppose that the only reason we say that it’s wrong to abandon the drowning child but okay to ignore the needs of starving children overseas is that the former pushes our emotional buttons while the latter do not. And let us suppose further that the only reason that faraway children fail to push our emotional buttons is that we evolved in an environment in which it was impossible to interact with faraway individuals. Could we then stand by our common sense intuitions?”
