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When the jobs of analysis and criticism are done, Henry Aiken said Tuesday, one further task remains for the philosopher: that the reconstruction and creation, of self-transcendence...
Speaking at the last of a series of well-attended lectures on contemporary philosophy, Aiken said that philosophy aims not just at understanding but at changing the world, or to be more precise, at changing the philosopher himself. In this sense, its aim is practical and moral...
CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES: The last lecture in the Contemporary Philosophy Lecture Series will be given this Tuesday in Allston Burr B at 4 p.m. Henry Aiken, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, will speak on "Prospects of Accommodation in Contemporary Philosophy...
...motion by Oklahoma's Democrat Robert Kerr to table the medicare amendment worked out by the Administration and five liberal Republicans. All 100 Senators were present - a rarity. Despite meticulous headcounting, the outcome hinged on a few unpredictable votes. The count began with Vermont Republican George Aiken's crisp anti-Administration "aye"; it had seesawed to a 13-13 tie by the time the clerk reached Douglas of Illinois. Two-thirds of the way down the list the Administration led, 37 to 31, but still ahead was the "murderers' row" of conservatives...
...inclined to be noisy and inattentive. She "needs to be very busy or she will gain superficial social superiority," was the comment on one of them, adding that "at heart she is kindly." Ceezee ended her academic career at Fermata, a very social, now defunct girls' school at Aiken, S.C., where she did best at French and Latin, worst at cooking and sewing, and admits: "I spent most of my time riding...