Word: immanuel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Left Bank, where small, homely M. Sartre had first preached Existentialism. The young Existentialists who still hung around the Flore took the news of Resistentialism calmly. Said a philosophy student: "The idea merits attention. Voyes-vous, the antagonism between things and man is nothing new. Even the great Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason seems prepared to grant some mysterious powers to things. In this book Kant admitted that the essential nature of objects remains completely unknown.* The trouble for us Existentialists is: how are we going to argue with inanimate objects? Let collar-buttons and slices...
...Mother Disc. Dr. ter Haar prefers his own modification of one of the earliest modern theories, originally proposed by Immanuel Kant in 1755. Kant suggested that the planets condensed gradually from a gaseous envelope surrounding the sun. Later cosmogonists discarded this theory mostly because it did not account for the greater angular momentum of the outer planets. But Dr. ter Haar believes that all Kant needs is a little tinkering...
Stark Realism. Locke's philosophy was elaborated and to some extent corrected by the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Hegel followed Kant, and Marx followed Hegel. One secret of the "arrogance" displayed by Germany and later by Communist Russia toward Britain and the U.S., Northrop observes, has been their assurance that their philosophical foundations were more modern and hence superior...
Prussia's last nine kings were crowned there. Philosopher Immanuel Kant had been born there, hardly ventured outside, and been buried there. Generations of German Junkers had called the city their home. Since 1255 Königsberg, more than any other German town, had stood for Prussian traditions. Last week Prussia's new masters made a clean break with tradition, renamed the city Kaliningrad...
...terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that of the German intellectual middle class." After his university career-which included lectures on subjects such as "The use of the comma by Lessing"-Franz had progressed so far into the abstract that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant appeared to him to be "escape literature." Suicide was the only logical next step. With the aid of a world-weary student of Sanskrit, young Schoenberner plotted a chain of thought of such intellectual intensity that it "would . . . dissolve even the body ... by pure force of thinking." When his body...