I need the help of #mastodon #philosophers.
Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?
It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).
Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.
German Chancellor accuses Putin of misusing philosopher Immanuel Kant's teachings
Europe News: German Chancellor Scholz criticizes Putin for misrepresenting Kant's ideas, contrasting Kant's peace principles with Russia's actions in Ukraine, despTOI World Desk (Times Of India)
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 • • •TL;DR
Kant was born in what Ukraine and EU call Crimea but Russia now calls Kaliningrad; since Putin invaded in 2014 and illegally annexed that part of Ukraine.
Putin has a real obsession with not being European enough. so his point of (mis)quoting Kant is about trying to prove that Kant wasn't really German, nor European; but Russian. that area + Poland were part of the historical German Prussia.
Scholz sees it as Putin's threat to eventually claim Germany & Poland as Russian too.
@benroyce
Eugen Rochko
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron @blogdiva liar!
it's czechia's 🤭
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1lovec_Region
satirical Czech annexation of Kaliningrad Oblast
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron ugh, this is why am not an EU politics expert, LOL. thanks for the correction.
FWIW i never took seriously when people described him like +20 years ago as being obsessed with wanting to re-write EU history as a RU history but, WOW, were they right about that.