philolzophy:

Kant

Sorry. Wrong. Incorrect. Not right. Quite erroneous. Off the mark. A few pints short of all the pints. Perhaps libelous.

Kant is one of the most entertaining to read and also pellucid thinking philosophers ever. He pretty much never left Könisberg, yet devised an entire system of thinking that included aesthetics, religion, morality, politics, science, logic, epistemology, and “pure reason” itself. Aside from creating the dominate way that we still look at looking at the world, he was also such a reliable person that the people of Könisberg could set their watches based on his regular walks.

Oh, and according to his Wikipedia page,

Ayn Rand was a critic of Kant. She referred to him as a “monster” and “the most evil man in history.” Rand was strongly opposed to the view that reason is unable to know reality “as it is in itself,” which she ascribed to Kant, and she considered her philosophy to be the “exact opposite” of Kant’s on “every fundamental issue”

So based on the admittedly sometimes shoddy logic of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Kant is even that much better. Plus he was right: You can’t know reality “as it is in itself.” Shame on you, Ayn Rand. You are no philosopher.