Essay Comparing Kant And Harry G. Frankfurt

In the society that has formed in my generation and the generations before, people have learned to blindly follow their leaders. Kids follow their parents, adults follow their pastors and politicians. Too often, people are scared to think freely for themselves and to question the authority who guides them, and often what they are told by people in authority or people in the public eye turns out to be lies, humbug, or even bullshit. This argument is made by both Immanual Kant and Harry G. Frankfurt, who both claim that members of society don’t look into what is said often enough, and don’t raise questions. This is seen most commonly in the way American’s blindly follow the words of politicians. It is commonplace for people to discuss how much Politicians in America lie. Even though repeatedly we uncover lies and bullshit that these
The Oxford English Dictionary sites a “bull session” as “an informal conversation or discussion, esp. of a group of males.” Frankfurt believes that this definition is wrong, because it uses the term “bull” to determine gender and not the type of conversation. He says this is as wrong as if a “hen session” was simply defined as an informal conversation among females. Instead, Frankfurt considers a “bull session” to do with personal and emotion-based aspects of life like religion, politics and sex. Since these topics are hard to speak about directly, people try out different opinions and attitudes to see how they feel saying such ideas, and often they will hold back slightly so people don’t take what they say all too seriously. Although I agree with this, I believe people will hold back what they say until they know the opinion of their company. If the people they are talking with feel the same way as they do about certain issues in society, then they share how they truly feel and the conversation will thrive as people feed off of each other’s ideas and shared