{"id":2480,"date":"2021-08-17T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/17\/who-is-caius\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:45:13","slug":"who-is-caius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/17\/who-is-caius\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Caius?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Robert Paul Wolff <a href=\"https:\/\/robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/a-reply-to-inquiry_27.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>&#0160;replies with wit and lefty snark to a charming request by one Pamela N., a personal assistant, who wants to know who Immanuel Kant is referring to when he writes, &quot;Caius is a man; man is mortal; therefore, Caius is mortal.&quot;&#0160; Pamela confesses,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I will admit, I have not read Kant&#39;s works. I have, however, spent the last couple of hours combing through post after post after post about this particular quote from the book and cannot find a single soul who would say who they think Caius is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">In reading these many posts, I have come to the conclusion that Kant is probably referring to Pope Caius as he has been venerated by the Catholic Church as a Saint. Given that title, and the fact that Saint&#39;s [sic] are given to [sic] a quasi-immortal status [sic], I have ascertained that this is who Kant is most likely referring to. My question for you is, do you think that my assumption is correct? or do you have a deeper insight into who he is referring to?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Paul Wolff here&#0160;replies with wit and lefty snark to a charming request by one Pamela N., a personal assistant, who wants to know who Immanuel Kant is referring to when he writes, &quot;Caius is a man; man is mortal; therefore, Caius is mortal.&quot;&#0160; Pamela confesses, I will admit, I have not read Kant&#39;s works. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/17\/who-is-caius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who is Caius?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,270,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-kant","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","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=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}