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http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/07/kantian-nihilism/ Trying to make a point Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/07/kantian-nihilism/#comment-25231 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:58:48 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/07/28/kantian-nihilism/#comment-25231 […] Someone has to post here, so it may as well be me. This is in part a follow up to my last post and part just my weak-willed submission to overwhelming temptation. (WARNING! Some righty-baiting follows.) I’m not noticeably fond of Christopher Hitchens, but in Mel Gibson’s Meltdown he has, as it were, the wind behind him. I think the sub-title He is sick to his empty core with Jew-hatred is too much, taking in psychoanalysing one’s subject (’sick’) and being culturally patronising (’empty’), though ‘Jew-hatred’ may be more or less on the nail. Probably not Hitchens’ fault, but the portrait of Gibson Slate chose to illustrate the piece, apparently showing the actor attempting to pass a kidney stone should be rated as unkind. And we’re treated to one of “teh Dude”’s rather strained apothegms: Englishmen don’t form picket lines outside movie theaters when “stereotyped,” but still. […]

]]> http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/07/kantian-nihilism/#comment-25020 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:23:31 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/07/28/kantian-nihilism/#comment-25020 Not met many philosophers then, dsquared?

]]> http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/07/kantian-nihilism/#comment-25018 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:18:04 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/07/28/kantian-nihilism/#comment-25018 I believe that the quote is from Lichtenberg “This book is a mirror; when a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out”. I’ve used it myself on occasion, though I find it is most effective when quoted directly rather than alluded to.

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