Guys, I'm looking for advice on how to approach Kant. I've started with the Greeks and have read most of Plato's and Arisitotle's work in both my native language and ancient greek, I've skipped the boring Roman schools (Stoics etc.) and studied the Scholastics thoroughly. Then I spent a lot of time on Descartes, Spinoza and Hume (only briefly analyzed Leibniz), and now I think I'm finally ready to delve into the magnificent chasm of Kant's thought. I have read of him from tertiary and secondary sources (same with the rest of German Idealism) and I've read some of the "easier" philosophers from later on (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, the existentialists etc.)
Where should I start? Is there anything else I should read before starting with Kant? Any and all advice is appreciated.
Also, if anyone is interested in anything about philosophy before German Idealism, I'd be happy to help.
>I've started with the Greeks and have read most of Plato's and Arisitotle's work in both my native language and ancient greek ( ..... )
get the fuck off this board
Wyatt Evans
thanks for the advice!
Leo Cox
Kant is tough. Schopenhauer has built upon him and is much easier to read. So you could start with him.
Parker Nelson
I think you are alright. I would start with the first Critique.
Noah Gonzalez
Use secondary texts, Kant was a shit writer
Jaxon Nguyen
Kant can be approached from multiple angles, of which the epistemological I consider most fruitful. If you're well familiar with the epistemologies of the philosophers you named, also of that of Leibniz (or Wolff), you are good to go.
Caleb Long
You have more than enough background to understand it, don't worry
Use Guyer's new translation which has a very good 100~ pg intro that should be trivial for you and useful at setting up the Critique
Also maybe check out the Cambridge Companion to the CPR, which is basically a longer version of Guyer's intro by more scholars on more topics / sections of the CPR, it's a good readalong
Parker Stewart
Read the essays "perpetual peace" and what is enlightenment
