或る哲学論争 - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

露西亜では２人の男がイマニュエル・カント*1哲学談義に興じていたところ、解釈の食い違いから片方が激昂して、論争相手を銃撃した；

Unreasonable critique of Kant leads to man being shot in Russian shop
Dispute over the German philosopher Immanuel Kant turns violent in Russian town of Rostov-on-Don

Reuters in Moscow
theguardian.com, Monday 16 September 2013 19.43 BST

An argument over the theories of the 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant ended in a man being shot in a grocery store in southern Russia.
RIA news agency quoted police in the city of Rostov-on-Don as saying a fight broke out between two men as they argued over Kant, the German author of Critique of Pure Reason, without giving details of their debate.
"In the course of the fight, the suspect took out a pistol firing rubber bullets and fired several shots at his opponent," it said, adding that one man was detained and the victim was taken to hospital. His life was not in danger.
Kant lived in Königsberg, which is now the Russian city of Kaliningrad, and is a central figure of modern philosophy. Many Russians love to discuss philosophy and history, often over a drink, but such discussions rarely end in shootings.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/kant-philospohy-argument-turns-violent

具体的にどんな論争だったのかは明らかにされていない。その内容を空想（妄想？）しているのはPeter Thompson氏*2。合理性と非合理性。カントかニーチェか；

(…) Maybe the argument was about the Jacques Lacan's conjunction of Kant and Sade *3? In the Critique of Practical Reason*4 Kant famously posits that an irresistible desire to do something can be countered by imagining a gallows in front of you on which you will be hung the moment the desire is gratified. As Slavoj Žižek has pointed out, Lacan asked whether it was more the case that some people only get gratification precisely when there was a gallows placed in front of them. An argument about Kant that ends in the shooting of one's interlocutor would therefore be the perfect argument against Kant.
Kant's idea that reason and self-preservation should always prevail over passion is undermined not only by Lacanian theory (and I make no apology for mentioning both Žižek and Lacan in the first paragraph – the situation would seem to demand it) but by our everyday experience of life. Risk to the point of disaster; the desire to transgress and to do violence in the name of that transgression is always with us. Often it is Nietzschean impulse to go beyond which governs, rather than the Kantian rationalist need to stay safe.

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David Hambling “Immanuel Kant shooting: should rubber-bullet weapons be banned in Russia?” http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/21/immanuel-kant-shooting-rubber-bullets-banned

凶器として使用された護謨弾のピストルについて。今回は殺人には至らなかったけれど、露西亜では最近５年間にこれで70名の人が生命を落としている*5。また18歳以上ならば誰でも買うことができる。

*2:“Getting shot over a philosophical argument? You Kant be serious” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/17/immanuel-kant-philosophical-argument-shot

*3:Slavoj Zizek “Kant and Sade: the Ideal Couple” http://www.lacan.com/zizlacan4.htm

*4:http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5683

*5:Svetlana Smetanina “Should Russia legalize guns?” http://rbth.co.uk/articles/2011/10/21/should_russia_legalize_guns_13611.html