Word: kant
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...Feelings" is not a good word when you're talking "art," because a bad production is a bad production, no matter how nice the actors or directors are. As Kant has pointed out, "One must not be in the least prepossessed in favor of the real existence of the thing...in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste." Often, however, dwelling on an individual's feelings is gratuitious and self-indulgent, and when a critic is far removed from the theater he tends to forget that...
...often confronted by people who think that Judaism is nothing more than a set of moral values that are the precursors of modern liberalism. They locate the Jewish tradition more in the tradition of Kant and Rawls than in Moses and Hillel. The truth is that modern-day Jews who form such a large part of the mainstream of philosophers and liberal thinkers can no more lay claim to Jewish tradition than Friedrich Nietzsche could to Lutheranism...