Rucka Rucka Ali - Immanuel Kant vs Ayn Rand - Rap Battle lyrics
[Rucka Rucka Ali - Immanuel Kant vs Ayn Rand - Rap Battle lyrics]
Graphic rap battle debates of philosophy!
Immanuel kant vs ayn rand! BEGIN!
When the Enlightenment was standing on
It's final flimsy toe
Everybody said just go with
What you already know
I stepped in and rescued
The Age of Reason was restored
Your faculties are divided into 2 forms
One is Intuition: when my fist
Immediately strikes your face
And Understanding afterwards with
Concepts you place
Giving identity both to your face
And to my punches this is called Judgement
Now is Judgement Day i have awoken from my
Dogmatic slumber with solutions
And reversed us into a Copernican Revolution
Of philosophy, a reversal of the trend
With which all philosophers after me
Will be required to contend
There are 2 worlds
The real one is called Noumenal
You can think of it but cannot know it
It's the true form
Which determines how your consciousness
Picks up material
Which appears but isn't real
It's all phenomenal
If you wish to find conclusive evidence
Stop it! You cannot see an object
You only see the process
Of perception which distorts your vision
But you use to see
What is ethical, you ask me? Duty!
Your respect for moral law
Must replace your inclinations
The pursuit of what you want
Is reprehensible and dangerous
Unless the thing you want is to be moral
Then you are permitted to
Enjoy your moral status
My Categorial Imperative supplies you with
Commandments and a purpose
We will all act as arbiters
Of ethics and it's servants
Every action must be eligible
As universal law
And together we'll build a Kingdom
Of Ends like never before
That was cute, Immanuel
But you saved the Age of Reason
Like a slave master saves his subject
From the pains of freedom
For over 2 centuries
You've made the world abhorrent but today
I have diss bars more
Extensive than your forehead
Your premises are faulty
You're salty at existence
To the point that you declare
Reality is mere appearance
You make reason a mere exercise to
Make some room for faith
Just like you'd let in Epstein asking
If there's children at your place
One mustn't compromise with evil
And the rational is the good
But just a drop of mysticism is
Like poison in your food
You could do much better, Kant
Well, on second thought, you can't
You're so dishonest you've automatized the
Lies you tell yourself
Now let's be objective
I know a thing or two about it
Your existence plus my consciousness
Equals headache for hours
Your senses don't distort
They have a nature of perception
To deny your observations is
Worse than a contradiction
You could not be this big a
Moron while also being it's opposite
So try applying Aristotle's logic
To your consciousness
And see what you've become
The most evil of all philosophers
I'd know you're German even if
You didn't speak like Schwarzenegger
You're being destroyed, boy
Like you destroyed the fate of Europe
By exploiting all the errors made
By philosophers before ya
John couldn't Locke an object
To it's features
Giving Hume the skepticism that you
Needed to unleash epistemic doom
And separate reality from
Reason so deceitfully
You're like Plato on crack
He couldn't sink so low to think that man is
Deaf for having ears, blind for having eyes
And now men willingly march into
Gulags peacefully to die
An ethics of duty? How original, Manny
Like a heavenless
Malevolent rendition of Christianity
Your altruism justifies the sacrifice of man
But now you're burning at the stake like
The mistakes on which your premises depend
Nice speech, Rand, if just a bit long
I will admit you write
A decent 3-hour monologue
But please stick to writing novels
Your philosophy's crappy
And much like Epstein
You make 14-year-olds happy
I'm regarded as one of the greats
You're a boring phase
For adolescents with the moral code for no
One making less than Bill Gates
This is ridiculous
We're not in the same boat
I am taught at Yale and Harvard
You're on clearance in Barnes & Noble
If we were in the same boat
You would push me off the ledge
To stretch your legs and you'd call
It "the virtue of selfishness"
We both never had kids
But the difference between us?
I left a legacy
You left quotes on pins and t-shirts
You never had children? Oh Kant
I beg to differ
Your philosophy gave birth to Stalin, Mao
Pol Pot and Hitler
I'm the spirit granddaughter of
The inventor of fire
I put every philosopher in history on trial
Reconcile their dichotomies and
Prosecute their crimes
Most of their work is defiled
By evasions and denial
I can integrate the moral with the practical
Emotions with the brain
And solve Plato's concept problem in
A story about trains
I could explain the relation of causality
To consciousness, existence with identity
The body with the mind
You want an A in philosophy?
I'll give you 3: Aristotle, aquinas
And Ayn
END BATTLE
Immanuel kant vs ayn rand! BEGIN!
When the Enlightenment was standing on
It's final flimsy toe
Everybody said just go with
What you already know
I stepped in and rescued
The Age of Reason was restored
Your faculties are divided into 2 forms
One is Intuition: when my fist
Immediately strikes your face
And Understanding afterwards with
Concepts you place
Giving identity both to your face
And to my punches this is called Judgement
Now is Judgement Day i have awoken from my
Dogmatic slumber with solutions
And reversed us into a Copernican Revolution
Of philosophy, a reversal of the trend
With which all philosophers after me
Will be required to contend
There are 2 worlds
The real one is called Noumenal
You can think of it but cannot know it
It's the true form
Which determines how your consciousness
Picks up material
Which appears but isn't real
It's all phenomenal
If you wish to find conclusive evidence
Stop it! You cannot see an object
You only see the process
Of perception which distorts your vision
But you use to see
What is ethical, you ask me? Duty!
Your respect for moral law
Must replace your inclinations
The pursuit of what you want
Is reprehensible and dangerous
Unless the thing you want is to be moral
Then you are permitted to
Enjoy your moral status
My Categorial Imperative supplies you with
Commandments and a purpose
We will all act as arbiters
Of ethics and it's servants
Every action must be eligible
As universal law
And together we'll build a Kingdom
Of Ends like never before
That was cute, Immanuel
But you saved the Age of Reason
Like a slave master saves his subject
From the pains of freedom
For over 2 centuries
You've made the world abhorrent but today
I have diss bars more
Extensive than your forehead
Your premises are faulty
You're salty at existence
To the point that you declare
Reality is mere appearance
You make reason a mere exercise to
Make some room for faith
Just like you'd let in Epstein asking
If there's children at your place
One mustn't compromise with evil
And the rational is the good
But just a drop of mysticism is
Like poison in your food
You could do much better, Kant
Well, on second thought, you can't
You're so dishonest you've automatized the
Lies you tell yourself
Now let's be objective
I know a thing or two about it
Your existence plus my consciousness
Equals headache for hours
Your senses don't distort
They have a nature of perception
To deny your observations is
Worse than a contradiction
You could not be this big a
Moron while also being it's opposite
So try applying Aristotle's logic
To your consciousness
And see what you've become
The most evil of all philosophers
I'd know you're German even if
You didn't speak like Schwarzenegger
You're being destroyed, boy
Like you destroyed the fate of Europe
By exploiting all the errors made
By philosophers before ya
John couldn't Locke an object
To it's features
Giving Hume the skepticism that you
Needed to unleash epistemic doom
And separate reality from
Reason so deceitfully
You're like Plato on crack
He couldn't sink so low to think that man is
Deaf for having ears, blind for having eyes
And now men willingly march into
Gulags peacefully to die
An ethics of duty? How original, Manny
Like a heavenless
Malevolent rendition of Christianity
Your altruism justifies the sacrifice of man
But now you're burning at the stake like
The mistakes on which your premises depend
Nice speech, Rand, if just a bit long
I will admit you write
A decent 3-hour monologue
But please stick to writing novels
Your philosophy's crappy
And much like Epstein
You make 14-year-olds happy
I'm regarded as one of the greats
You're a boring phase
For adolescents with the moral code for no
One making less than Bill Gates
This is ridiculous
We're not in the same boat
I am taught at Yale and Harvard
You're on clearance in Barnes & Noble
If we were in the same boat
You would push me off the ledge
To stretch your legs and you'd call
It "the virtue of selfishness"
We both never had kids
But the difference between us?
I left a legacy
You left quotes on pins and t-shirts
You never had children? Oh Kant
I beg to differ
Your philosophy gave birth to Stalin, Mao
Pol Pot and Hitler
I'm the spirit granddaughter of
The inventor of fire
I put every philosopher in history on trial
Reconcile their dichotomies and
Prosecute their crimes
Most of their work is defiled
By evasions and denial
I can integrate the moral with the practical
Emotions with the brain
And solve Plato's concept problem in
A story about trains
I could explain the relation of causality
To consciousness, existence with identity
The body with the mind
You want an A in philosophy?
I'll give you 3: Aristotle, aquinas
And Ayn
END BATTLE