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Street Philosopher

Kindly with Kant

Seán Moran imagines Immanuel as an inn-keeper.

Yes, it is real. Kant’s hotel is located near the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Immanuel Kant himself never lived anywhere apart from his home-town of Königsberg, Prussia (now called Kaliningrad, in Russia), so this Indian hotel has nothing to do with him. But when I took the photograph, it started me thinking about what a hotel run on Kantian principles would be like.

If he were involved, we’d expect everything to run punctually, in stereotypically Prussian style.

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