Posted on 09/17/2013 7:07:16 AM PDT by Borges
One Russian man reportedly shot another during an argument about the 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, The Wall Street Journal reports. Two men standing in line for beer in southern Russia began arguing about the Critique of Pure Reason author, and "decided to find out which of them is a bigger fan of this philosopher, and a tempestuous argument escalated into a fist fight." At that point, investigators say, one man shot the other with a non-fatal bullet. The injured man will recover. The suspected shooter was picked up by the police and charged with "intentional infliction of serious harm."
Russian exceptionalism at play.
He was not shot...there was a fist fight.
Same thing would happen between Socrates and that punk Aristotle....if the two had ever met. You can’t allow someone to disrespect your philosophy stuff.
Same thing would happen between Socrates and that punk Aristotle....if the two had ever met. You can’t allow someone to disrespect your philosophy stuff.
Yet another example that alcohol and philosophy are a volatile mix.
They could have resolved it through song!
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya’
‘Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: “I drink, therefore I am”
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he’s pissed!
Sounds like something Dostoyevsky could have written.
Or a scene from a Tarantino movie.
**a non-fatal bullet**
Lucky for Boris who took the bullet.
Give them some credit. How many Americans standing in line to buy a beer know who is Immanuel Kant.:-))
NPR could find 50 such stories on a given day from the US, if they wanted to. But of course they don’t want to. (Latest-a mother, 31 yo, stabs her 17 yo son to death over ice cream. She at first tells the arresting officers that he “walkd into the knife”-11 times. He was a high school senior and, of course, an aspiring rapper.)
I'll take your word for it. Just checked his filmography...I've never seen a Tarantino movie.
Hmmm, who would have thought that the topics of conversation at the neighborhood taverns in Russia are the same as in the USA........
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