Word: kant
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Tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. brags of the world's most distinguished faculty-the authors (Homer to Kant to Kierkegaard) of the 100-odd Great Books, "the real original and ultimate teachers at St. John's." Last week the college added its first lady to the staff: Jane Austen. Newest Great Book: Pride and Prejudice...
Among modern astronomers, an old theory of the origin of the solar system was back in fashion. German Philosopher Immanuel Kant had speculated in 1755 that the sun and its planets were formed by condensation out of a gaseous cloud. For a while astronomers supported Kant, but later his "nebula hypothesis" lost scientific favor. More modern astronomers, notably Sir James Jeans, have conceded that the sun may have been formed that way, but not the planets. To explain the planets, Jeans suggested that another star must have grazed the sun, pulling out a thread of sun-matter that gathered into...
Whirling Discs. But Kant's hypothesis was not entirely discarded by astronomers. Recently, armed with a vast amount of detailed knowledge that Kant did not possess, modern astronomers have busied themselves reconsidering his theory and plugging holes in it. Last week, in a Chicago lecture, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago presented bis own neo-Kantian hypothesis. Basing his reasoning on hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings...
Three years later, his first philosophical book, The Religious Philosophy of Kant, was published, while he was working for his licentiate in theology. At the same time, he became a preacher in Strasbourg's Church of St. Nicholas. "Preaching was a necessity of my being," he wrote in his autobiography.-"I felt it as something wonderful that I was allowed to address a congregation every Sunday about the deepest questions of life." In 1902 he was made a curate of the church...
...precocious son of a Madrid journalist (at seven, he had memorized whole chapters out of Cervantes), Ortega was no mere academician. In 1923 he founded the powerful Revista de Occidente, which became the meeting place of Madrid's intellectuals. He wrote on everything-from Kant's philosophy ("my house and my prison") to donkeys and Don Quixote, art and music...