Word: kant
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That assertion would seem to present new evidence of Japan's literary resurgence. But there is an equal and opposite force at work in the country, and pessimists cite it as an indication of decline. "It used to be that every potential intellectual in Japan read Hegel or Kant," laments Keene. "But no more. The people who seven or eight years ago were reading Romain Rolland are now reading comics...
...first cracks showed when he began to put off both marriage and career. Maass blames his crisis, a bit too simply, on Kleist's discovering Kant and losing God. It seems more likely that Kleist began writing protest literature against the suffocating Age of Enlightenment...
...attacks Einstein's theory of determinism, which holds that with a sophisticated enough scientific approach, man can explain and predict all occurences. But the argument only rarely appears dated. Popper proves that classical theory can never fulfill the objectives of the traditional philosophers--from Spinoza, Hobbes and Hume to Kant, Schopenhauer, and J.S. Mill--because it lends itself, through inaccuracy, to randomness and unpredictability. In this way, he buttresses quantum theory, which incorporates randomness as a principle. Einstein had often attacked this with his famous "God does not play dice with the Universe...
...READ; at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, THINK EWING! THINK!; in Philadelphia's Palestra, EWING IS AN APE. When Ewing was introduced there someone in the crowd tossed a banana peel onto the court. T shirts and buttons have been manufactured bearing the slogan: EWING KANT READ DIS, which is also a recurring chant at the games. Not surprisingly, Patrick Ewing, 20, has had a few fights this year. Racism is not surprising. It pervade sports and life. But the overtness of ape banners and bananas on the floor is chilling...
...American culture and public policy at Northwestern. "I think it's profoundly uneducated to frame the question in terms of lists." Others were willing to play but mistrusted the rules. "Very few books stand on their own," said Daniel Bell, professor of sociology at Harvard. "You cannot read Kant without having read Hume, and you can't read Hume without having read Descartes...