Word: kant
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...Representative Houghton had his meeting with the President on Wednesday, he gave him a gift, a new biography of Isaiah Berlin, the late political thinker who taught at Oxford University when Clinton studied there in the late '60s. One of Berlin's favorite epigrams was from the philosopher Immanuel Kant: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can be made." He was right...
...then sorted into the same academic groupings, but that's about the extent of the uniformity of academic experience. Does an A received in a VES or computer science course carry the same weight as one in government or economics? And which is more admirable--four years spent engaging Kant, Plato and Nietzsche, or 50 hours a week researching in the biology labs...
This totally hot guy in my Philosophy tutorial was talking about the categorical imperative and why Kant was wrong to propose its unconditional supremacy over the hypothetical imperative. He attacked the premise of autonomous will in an argument by reductio ad absurdum, taking it to the Objectionist extreme as put forth by Ayn Rand. I was all, like, impressed, and wanted to show him that I was smart too, so I was about to bring up the need for primary AND secondary laws in a society--and then I farted. Everyone heard me, even the proseminar on Hegel next door...
Fried, who taught a course on Roman law at HLS,distinguished himself on the court with hisacademic flair and frequent quotations from Danteand Kant...
Nicholson contrasted Kant and Marx to Freud...