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...century philosophy remarkably popular. While Taubes demands hard work from his students he is unrelenting in setting his own schedule. In addition to his philosophy course, Taubes teachers a Humanities course in "Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy," a Humanities 3 section, and writes prolifically on Hobbes, Rousseau and Hegel...
...became a close friend of Paul Tillich, with whom he studied, and of Yale's famed philosopher, Paul Weiss Martin Buber secured him a position as Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the following year. Taubes found that his course on Hegel and Marx was violently controversial in Jerusalem, for a group of remarkably well trained Marxist debaters was in the student body, and the left-wing press soon began to attack him. But Taubes had to admit that the Communists in Israel have a uniquely trained cabal of students who excel...
...generation - is enough to make wiseacres blink. Twenty-five years ago, traditional Christianity seemed to many an American intellectual to be rolling up the scroll. The Good Life was a matter of well-planned getting and spending, and all the answers were to be found written down, from Hegel to Freud to Keynes. Professor John Dewey and his fellow philosophers were preaching a heady trial & error pragmatism. The up-to-date intellectual was so uninterested in Christianity that he rarely found it worth while even to be antireligious...
...Philosophy department will also offer a new half course in the spring on "Hegel and His Influence...
...Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein. † New coinage meaning "collection of topics." * Positivists are the philosophical school, virtually dominant in the U.S. and Britain today, which suggests that philosophy is merely a tool...