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...basis for religion, faith actually stems from the sophisticated reasoning process that distinguishes humans from animals. To Green, man must seek an independent, coherent source for his morality. Although Kant ended with a personal God, Green will only go so far as to postulate "some kind of supreme moral causal agency," whether a personal deity or Hinduism's impersonal karma...
Beyond this, I would suggest that the instances in the history of human thought where personal moral integrity bears a causal relationship to the discovery of important truth are legion. The same is true in "belles letters" and perhaps also in visual arts. The problem is not merely to find "excellence," as John Silber puts it, but to define what "excellence" is. Humanity is general seems to think that excellent scholarship has something to do with meeting the needs of the world's unfortunate and underprivileged people. Academic administrators in the Boston area increasingly seem to feel instead that...
...course he returned underground to contemplate the chaos of his being. Yet the realism of Ralph Ellison is critical in that it seems to examine the causal factors which result in the nexus of relationships which seek to determine our reality. This reality, however, is problematic, as presumably it is uncertain and invisible within the context of the reality...
Finally, leadership, which is an historical process of ceaseless interaction between leaders and followers, would result in a "change in leaders' and followers' motives and goals," which in turn would produce "a causal effect on social relations and political institutions" much as the interaction of chemicals changes their composition. The person without followers is not a leader, no matter how stirring his oratory or how right his cause may be, because he does not make a difference; he cannot change how people...
Swedes get 42% of their dietary iron from fortified foods. The Swedish doctors are careful not to draw a causal link between the incidence of iron overload and Sweden's 30-year-old iron fortification program. But they warn that under such a program, people genetically predisposed to hemochromatosis are at risk...