[ConservativeDude]

I think this sort of speaks for itself. Rather than commenting, I prefer to hear the comments of freepers.....

[varmintman]

We live in a country where people are shot over their sneaks; the idea of a country in which people are more likely to get shot over abstract philosophical questions almost sounds refreshing/charming...

[DesertRhino]

Baikal MP 461,, a little can of whoop ass.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Was obviously too much of an intellectual discussion for this guy. Some intellectual discussions need to be confined to classrooms or at least the right target audience.

[PATRIOT1876]

This is rather novel.

A shooting because of an argument over philosophers rather than the normal gang shooters about 18th century poets.

[mjp]

It was not clear which of Kant's ideas may have triggered the violence.

1)Kant held that logic and causality - principles essential to the integration mode of thought- are baseless; neither can be derived from sense data of validated by reason, whether this base is conceived in Platonic or in Aristotelian fashion.

2)Kant rejects out of hand Aristotle's theory that concepts derive from percepts. On the contrary, concepts, or at least the world-shaping ones, come first; and percepts are their product Such concepts Kant points out, cannot be validated by observation,or by rationalist deduction from so-called "self evident" insights.

3) reality is unknowable (but Kant knows that the truth of his theory is knowable)

Kant's philosophy is not a set of affirmations, worldly or otherworldly, but of negations:

1) in metaphysics, Kant denies the reality of this world in favor of a higher realm, but in favor of a realm inconceivable to human consciousness.

2) in epistemology, Kant condemns man's consciousness as impotent to grasp real truth, because it requires an means of consciousness.

3) in ethics,Kant put an end to the morality of the Enlightenment by unleashing the code of self-sacrifice in its pure form.He claimed that a moral action is an end in itself rather than the means to end.

His philosophy is evil because the modern products of his philosophy are pragmatism, skepticism,and nihilism which libtards happily use constantly.

[lavaroise]

Brazil is based on Kant, no? ordo e progresso

[haroldeveryman]

“An argument in southern Russia over philosopher Immanuel Kant, the author of “Critique of Pure Reason,” devolved into pure mayhem when one debater shot the other”

The shooter wanted to prove that the other guy doesn’t exist.