27 апр. 2016 г.

Irrational Man

& Abe: Kant said human reason is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, but also cannot answer. Okay, so, what are we talking about here? Morality? Choice? The randomness of life? Aesthetics? Murder?

& Jill: ...And he could always cloud the issue with words.

& Abe: There’s a difference between a theoretical world of philosophy bullshit, and real life, you know? Real, nasty, ugly life that includes greed, and hate, and genocide. Remember, if you learn nothing else from me, you should learn that much of philosophy is verbal masturbation.

& Abe: Okay, Kierkegaard. Um... You know, when making everyday decisions, we have absolute freedom of choice. All right? You can do nothing, or anything. And this feeling of freedom creates a sense of dread. A dizzy feeling. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

& Jill: You know, Abe actually says that people just manufacture drama so they can get through their lives because they’re so empty.


& Abe: Fifty-fifty odds is better than most people get in life.

& Abe: They say that drowning is a painless way to go.
    Jill: Despair is what Kierkegaard called the sickness unto death, Abe. And you suffer from despair.
    Abe: I’m well aware of what Kierkegaard thought. But he was, in the end, a Christian. How comforting that would be.

& Abe: Today we’re gonna discuss existential choice. That life has the meaning you choose to give it. And we’ll examine Jean-Paul Sartre’s wonderful insight, «Hell is other people.»

& Abe: Is the world a better place without this rotten judge?

& Abe: I guess she was right when she said that one murder opens the door to more...

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