{"id":3426,"date":"2013-10-09T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2013-10-09T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:32:14","slug":"cant-kant-not-cause-gunfights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/10\/09\/cant-kant-not-cause-gunfights\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Kant not cause gunfights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment3427\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2013\/10\/0.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3427\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2013\/10\/0-300x225.jpg\" title=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/10\/0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/10\/0.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment3427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monty Python enacting quarreling philosophers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A dubious yet interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/russian-shot-quarrel-over-kants-philosophy-103436093.html\">report<\/a> describes a gunfight between two Russian men arguing over Kant&#8217;s philosophy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 An argument in southern Russia over philosopher Immanuel Kant, the author of &#8220;Critique of Pure Reason,&#8221; devolved into pure mayhem when one debater shot the other.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman in Rostov-on Don, Viktoria Safarova, said two men in their 20s were discussing Kant as they stood in line to buy beer at a small store on Sunday. The discussion deteriorated into a fistfight and one participant pulled out a small nonlethal pistol and fired repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening. Neither person was identified.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear which of Kant&#8217;s ideas may have triggered the violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Core students may enjoy the limmerick-type comment under the actual <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/russian-shot-quarrel-over-kants-philosophy-103436093.html\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dubious yet interesting report describes a gunfight between two Russian men arguing over Kant&#8217;s philosophy: MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 An argument in southern Russia over philosopher Immanuel Kant, the author of &#8220;Critique of Pure Reason,&#8221; devolved into pure mayhem when one debater shot the other. A police spokeswoman in Rostov-on Don, Viktoria Safarova, said two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426"}],"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\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3430,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}