{"id":1801,"date":"2012-10-14T07:57:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2012-10-14T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T11:57:53","slug":"aeschliman-on-silber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/10\/14\/aeschliman-on-silber\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeschliman on Silber"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Silber\u2019s lifelong meditation on the strengths and limits of Kant\u2019s ethics was like Jacob wrestling with the angel. A Germanophile, Silber was haunted by the fact that the noble Germanic philosophical tradition best represented by Kant had not been able to do more to prevent luciferian National Socialism: He thought this revealed an inadequacy in Kant\u2019s thinking and, like C. S. Lewis, proposed the Christian Milton\u2019s depiction of Satan in\u00a0<em>Paradise Lost<\/em> as an ultimately more accurate reading of diabolical evil. Yet Kant had also said that \u201cfrom the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can be made,\u201d a paraphrase of the Christian doctrine of original sin. Silber never himself indulged in the flattery of human nature, but never turned pessimistic or cynical either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/330320\/dr-valiant-truth-m-d-aeschliman\">Prof. Michael Aeschliman&#8217;s eulogy for Dr. John Silber<\/a>, as appears in <em>National Review<\/em>. Dr. Silber, longtime president and thereafter chancellor of Boston University, passed away on September 25th.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silber\u2019s lifelong meditation on the strengths and limits of Kant\u2019s ethics was like Jacob wrestling with the angel. A Germanophile, Silber was haunted by the fact that the noble Germanic philosophical tradition best represented by Kant had not been able to do more to prevent luciferian National Socialism: He thought this revealed an inadequacy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860,4854,3856,2671],"tags":[7524,3712,11186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}