Kant points out that "the power of judgment is a special talent that cannot be taught but only practiced" and that the lack of such a power "cannot be made good by any school" (Critique of Pure Reason A133/B172; Guyer/Wood trans.). He then gives us this footnote:
The lack of the power of judgment is that which is properly called stupidity, and ( Read more... )

"Kantianism is only superficially repulsive -- despite appearances, it offers an inducement, solace to a sense of the world's unfairness."

- Bernard Williams - “Moral Luck” from Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers 1973-1980 (Cambridge UP, 1981), p.21.