{"id":8480,"date":"2013-09-17T05:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/dispute-about-kant-erupts-into-gun-fire\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T05:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T05:32:08","slug":"dispute-about-kant-erupts-into-gun-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/dispute-about-kant-erupts-into-gun-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispute About Kant Erupts in Gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Story here<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The Russian boys were lined up for beer; perhaps one of them couldn't wait his 'transcendental' turn and the other, forsaking duty for inclination, shot him categorically albeit phenomenally.  Or maybe the shooter was attempting to demonstrate that the transcendentally ideal can also be empirically real.  Or perhaps the shooter was a Randian hothead and the man shot was a Kantian.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what comes of ignoring 'motorist' Rodney King's rhetorical question, 'Kant we all just get along?'<\/span><\/p>\n

For Ayn Rand and her followers, Kant is the devil incarnate.  I don't dispute that Rand made some good points, but her tabloid outbursts anent the Sage of Koenigsberg aren't worth the hot air that powered them.  Despite her frequent invocations of reason, her work would be a worthy target of a Critique of Poor Reason.<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Story here.  The Russian boys were lined up for beer; perhaps one of them couldn't wait his 'transcendental' turn and the other, forsaking duty for inclination, shot him categorically albeit phenomenally.  Or maybe the shooter was attempting to demonstrate that the transcendentally ideal can also be empirically real.  Or perhaps the shooter was a Randian hothead and the … Continue reading “Dispute About Kant Erupts in Gunfire”<\/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":[270,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kant","category-rand-ayn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480","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=8480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}