Complete Woks of Immanuel Kant

Kant is a philosopher that any person has to know. His great contributions to the moral education, and to the philosophy of science most be know and assimilate for the thinkers of these fields.

Easy read and encouraged me to read more on Kant's philosophy.

Kant of course is a giant among philosophers. Though this is far from a complete collection. Worse, though this book does include most of Kant's major contributions, it says nothing about his culinary preparation or the tools he used. I should have considered this as, during his time, it's unlikely have would have come across more than a single "wok" and added it to his allegedly impressive kitchen. I was quite curious as to how Kant prepared some of his legendary dishes, so this title did appeal to me. I can't be sure (can we ever truly know what's "real"?), but I'm beginning to suspect the title is a typo...and it was supposed to read "Complete WORKS of Immanuel Kant.” Oops. But, despite saying nothing about his wok collection, or even verifying that he owned one, it's still a good, if incomplete, collection. Cheers!

dull but useful

Wow. Must read.

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I’m not sure how much I got from this. I only read about half of the first book, A Critique of Pure Reason. I think I get the gist, or some of it. We can’t know what’s real. We get most of our understanding through observations, which are just representations of reality. Some knowledge comes from our reason only. We can know a bit about how we observe. In particular, space and time are part of our way of understanding what we observe. It’s really hard to read.

As a catalog of eighteenth century, Asian cookpans, this volume is outstanding. Kant was inspired by the rationality of stir-frying as a technique to create quick yet complex entrees. His collection grew to include examples ranging from the sheild-shaped to some that are nearly conical. Materials include copper, pewter and steel with a variety of handle types. As a bonus, there are several recipes presented in the final chapter, including Kant's original "Prologue to a Flash Fried String Bean". If you are ever in Konigsburg, be sure to see the pieces displayed in the universities permanent museum collection.