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Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong

Last week I learned that Robert Paul Wolff, the philosopher who got interested in anarchism and marxism, died and I wanted to write something dedicated to him — this was the first reason I started writing this. The second one, was to finally finish an essay that I have in my /temp folder for at least 10 years, which my 20-year-old self titled “Why should I care?”.

In this regard, I don’t know how many times I’ve had to prove to the people around me that I’m not an idiot, and that what I feel is not apathy, nor some pubescent desire to rebel, but simply a complete and continuous disinterest in the “problems” that concern them, in favor of things I consider more important. Finally, in light of the teaching of the First Critique, Kant must connect up his conclusions concerning the principles guiding the choices of rational agents with our experience of ourselves as causally determined beings in the realm of appearance. Indeed, the non-compelling means very little in practical terms — I don’t know all the reason why people become murderers and criminals, but I doubt that it is because they are philosophically opposed to social contract (or that they can be tamed by putting forward the thesis that they are obliged to do good by the categorical imperative).

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