German idealism

and his influence on American culture in particular.

Do you think that Immanuel Kant and his particular form of philosophy and the romanticism that came out of it in the German tradition Because his transcendentalism, it kind of inflated the ego and it developed narcissism, which has come the whole way into our age.

And there was no projection of that to the logos that you have in the Catholic tradition.

And we've been bedeviled by that so much in Western culture, more than a lot of other things that you mentioned.

and that unhinged kind of romanticism that kind of inverted back into our age, into this kind of individualism of the ego and of narcissism, and that our whole culture has been bedevilled by that philosophical tradition that goes back to Kant in the German tradition, particularly in America, I think, more than in Europe because of the way America developed.

Would you agree with that?

No.

No, I don't think Immanuel Kant had any real influence in America whatsoever.