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Kant and Freedom

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Freud's Unconscious Bias

I think that there's like, there are seeds of a Freudian kind of upheaval. And I think it comes right from unconscious. Like Kant thought we're constantly trying to make ourselves act morally, but we never get there. So he has this almost inherent hysteria in his moral project. But on the same token, there's an imperative to have pure moral acts. Right? We can never be sure that we acted not with any pathological, like we didn't just enjoy acting on behalf of duty instead. You know what I'm saying? It's interesting is it goes against, you know, we usually think of Freud as inter, unconscious as introducing pathologies.right?"

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