It sounds extremely naive to write of a title like this one. But I am not here to intepret what Kant had said. What I would like to say is punctuality. Kant's life is uneventful. He was reportedly obsessed (well this might not be a correct word) in punctuality. It was said that the whole city of Konigsberg adjusted the clock with his passing by every day. On one occasion, Kant stayed home for a few days to read Rousseau's Emile. The whole city was late.
In the city in which I temporarily reside, I find it increasingly difficult to meet sometime on time, or, to put it more mildy, in time. To meet someone on time is a difficult task as there is only one point in time with the two parties meeting that makes a meeting on time. But to meet one in time is easier, I suppose, if both parties do not arrive later than the appointed time.
Perhaps the lateness, so to speak, is attributable to the emergence of mobile phone; whereby people can postpone meetings in the last minute. But I think it is more to do with one's declining mentality when technology advances. Those people I come across are all stupid beings. Quite to the contrary of conventional wisdom (well, who possesses wisdom these days?), technological advancement, progress in medicine, reduced need in hard labour and much diminished likelihood of bodily injuries at work are supposedly positive (virtuous) factors in the loop that strengthens humanity not weakens it; but in fact these factors add to the decadence of humankind (or a majority of the members in the humankind).
Kant was groundbreaking which is incomparable with what I see - those late people I am hateful to see. Hume, the great Scottish skeptic, proved that the law causality is not analytic, which inferred tht we could not know for certain of its truth. Kant accepted it is synthetic but it is known a priori.
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