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Letters
Letters
Gordon’s Destructive Creativity • Just Words • Steiner Decliner • The Heart of Art • Free Existential Joke • Extraordinary Ethical Extractions • Not A Single Dual • Freedom Fudge • What Is Free Will, Anyway?
Gordon’s Destructive Creativity
DEAR EDITOR: It isn’t often that an article in a philosophy journal can provoke immediate anger in me. Nevertheless, Prof Gordon’s reflection ‘The Blood of the 3000’ (Philosophy Now 68) managed to do just that. From the heading I expected perhaps a philosophical reflection on the ethics of those who killed 3000 workers and passengers. But no: alas, the good professor goes on to blame the victims’ culture for the bloodshed. Evidently consumerism is the sole aspiration of American society, and the terrorism a fulfilment of a subconscious wish resulting from ennui and a craving for some excitement.
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