Word: kant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sick of Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Foucault and, especially, Habermas...
...reach it. At the next class (Phil. 168), I did not even get a seat. Craning my neck to hear over the crowd that had amassed by the door to the small Emerson classroom, I caught only bits of pieces of a lecture containing a number of references to "Kant" and "very difficult." As to securing a seat in Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court and The Pursuit of Justice," the cause was lost from the start. I joined the huddled masses waiting outside the Fogg but soon lost my resolve...
...example of this is, if the Nazis came looking for a family of Jews whom you were hiding in your attic, you would be permitted to lie in order to protect them. Most people would say such a lie was an act of virtue. Not 19th century philosopher Immanuel Kant. He was an absolutist who believed the prohibition against lying was a paradigm of a "categorical imperative," an unconditional moral law. Kant was cruel; he would have turned in Anne Frank. With honesty like that, most people would prefer lying. People who say they never lie tend to be supercilious...
...without title or position manage to get himself elected head of a German nation renowned for its civilizing mission? How to explain the success of his cheap demagogy in the heart of a people so proud of having inherited the genius of a Wolfgang von Goethe and an Immanuel Kant...
...schools this past week or two has given me a slightly different perspective on this question of the correct attitude to bring to one's reading and writing. At the end of the thesis writing process, I was pretty convinced by Ruskin. I kept telling myself: "you real small, Kant real big." I tried to listen carefully to what Kant was saying. Being weak, I was often tempted to make up what I thought he was saying. It seemed to me that I had some interesting idea that someone might have said, but with Ruskin in mind, I tried...