my brain is dried. I’m still studying Ethics, and a do not have a clue of what to do to stay awake. I’m with Tired and Sleepy…yes; two little elfs who come over now and then. So…exhausted with Ethics, with the theory and history, and the the rules that constrict our “human” acts…I decided to make a break, if that is a good thing to do. Of course, good is relative. I was searching something in the net, and as usual I got lost and ended up reading about of one of my fauvorite American film director, writer, musician, actor and comedian: Allen Stewart Königsberg, or, as we know him: Woody Allen. One of the most charismatic characteres of this century; he has made of paranoia and neurosis, religion and relationship interactions an art. Here is where I came acrooss some of the quotes of a movie called “Love and Death”. excellent movie by the way, if you enjoy and get to understand Woody Allen. “Love and Death” (1975) is in many respects an artistic transition between the two. It is the last of Allen’s movies that tries to get as many laughs as possible, but despite this it contains a lot of commentary on philosophy and this balance is possibly why Allen considers it one of his best and most personal films. Diane Keaton and Allen, as Sonja and Boris, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era, engage in mock-serious philosophical debates. And here is where Ethics and my fight against it made a turn, at least for a a little while, until I get back to the “official” and “correct” theory. Here are the quotes:

Sonja: Boris, Let me show you how absurd your position is. Let’s say there is no God, and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses.What prevents you from murdering somebody?
Boris: Murder’s immoral.
Sonja: Immorality is subjective.
Boris: Yes, but subjectivity is objective.
Sonja: Not in a rational scheme of perception.
Boris: Perception is irrational. It implies imminence.
Sonja: But judgment of any system of phenomena exists in any rational, metaphysical or epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself.
Boris: Yeah, I’ve said that many times.
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Him: Come to my quarters tomorrow at three.
Sonja: I can’t.
Him: Please!
Sonja: It’s immoral. What time?
Him: Who is to say what is moral?
Sonja: Morality is subjective.
Him: Subjectivity is objective.
Sonja: Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality.
Him: Not as an essential extension of ontological existence.
Sonja: Can we not talk about sex so much?

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Sgt: Next week, we leave for the front. The object will be to kill as many Frenchmen as possible. Naturally, they are going to try and kill as many Russians as possible. If we kill more Frenchmen, we win. If they kill more Russians, they win.
Boris: What do we win?

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Boris: Nothingness. Non-existence. Black emptiness.
Sonja: What did you say?
Boris: Oh, I was just planning my future.
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Boris: (a) Socrates is a man.(b) All men are mortal.(c) All men are Socrates.

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End of entry. Nothing further to add.