{"id":12920,"date":"2008-11-21T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/21\/having-it-both-ways\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T18:10:15","slug":"having-it-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/21\/having-it-both-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Having It Both Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstinpost\">Karl Kraus, <strong>Beim Wort Genommen<\/strong>, p. 194:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Wenn einer sich wie ein Vieh benommen hat, sagt er: Man ist doch nur ein Mensch! Wenn er aber wie ein Vieh behandelt wird, sagt er: Man ist doch auch ein Mensch!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A person who has behaved in a beastly manner excuses himself by saying, &quot;I am only human!&quot; But when he is treated in a beastly manner, he protests, &quot;I too am a human being!&quot; (trans. BV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Sartrean terms, we invoke either our facticity or our transcendence depending on which serves us better at the moment. Well, our nature is metaphysically dual; we may as well get some use out of that fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Kraus, Beim Wort Genommen, p. 194: Wenn einer sich wie ein Vieh benommen hat, sagt er: Man ist doch nur ein Mensch! Wenn er aber wie ein Vieh behandelt wird, sagt er: Man ist doch auch ein Mensch! A person who has behaved in a beastly manner excuses himself by saying, &quot;I am only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/21\/having-it-both-ways\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Having It Both Ways&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,39,773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-human-predicament","category-kraus-karl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}