Word: immanuel
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...Duties Toward the Body in Respect of Sexual Impulse," a portion of his Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant made a powerful argument against sexual relations out-of-wedlock. The argument is all the more hard-hitting when one reflects that Kant is considered to be a father of modern liberalism. Suggesting that the rights of sexual partners to each other could only be secured by marital commitment, Kant argued that "there must be a basis for restraining our freedom in the use we make of our inclinations so that they conform to the principles of morality." This is at odds...
...particular, Bala said that there were similarities between the moral theory of Immanuel Kant and philosophies in the Bhagavad Gita...
...said. My financial affairs, in fact, have always looked as if they've been in the washing machine for a long time with a runny sweater. In other words, this would be nothing new. So, I figured, let the financial industry worry about its own data-processing problems. As Immanuel Kant used to say, "It don't make me no nevermind...
...congregation ((at Little Rock's Immanuel Baptist Church)) sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Clinton repeatedly wiped tears from his eyes." -- LOS ANGELES TIMES...
...dual expression, matching in some ways the tension in his personality between his populist leanings as an Elvis Presley-loving son of a small-town nurse and his intellectual elitism as a Rhodes scholar and full-time wonk. He developed an intense relationship with the Rev. W.O. Vaught of Immanuel Baptist, a biblical scholar known for his erudition, whose sermons were drawn directly from Scripture. Friends of both men say Clinton, who lost his father to a car accident before he was born, was drawn to him for his paternal and nonjudgmental counsel. Vaught, who died of bone cancer three...