Word: kant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...political history of Germany (1356-1897), to be given by Professor Hart; three new courses in the architectural department, in drawing, in building construction, and in practice in modelling; two new half courses in geology, one in meteorology, the other in elementary Physiography; Philosophy 8, a half course on Kant, to be given by Professor James; and Hygiene 10, a half course on general hygiene to be given by Assistant Professor Fitz. In place of his half course on the Social and Political Tendencies in German Literature, Professor Francke is to give two half courses, on the German Romantic Movement...
...nature has resulted in the progress of science. But our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. The world of our present natural knowledge is a show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame no positive idea. As Kant pointed out, of this unknowable world we are morally bound to postulate a Divine Moral Order. Because it is our duty to treat the unknown world as if it were divine and moral, we practically know for certain that it is divine and moral. The inner need of believing that...
...chief types of ethical thought, with special reference to the schools of Socrates and Kant. It will be in charge of Dr. Santayana...
...retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness that comes with age to good books as to good men. Mere scholarship is as useless as the collecting of old postage stamps. Kant used to say that there was nothing in the world so dreary as the company of mere scholars. With nothing but Lemprire's Dictionary and Chapman's Homer, Keats at twenty...
...demands more than that. Therefore, it is the general good to be derived from it which I wish to emphasize. However, it is not only the writers of truths which are attractive; Voltaire, in spite of his petty foibles, Sydney Smith and Lamb with their delightful humor, Heine and Kant; they all have their virtues...