Word: kant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...financial affairs, in fact, have always looked as if they've been in the washing machine for a long time with a runny sweater. In other words, this would be nothing new. So, I figured, let the financial industry worry about its own data-processing problems. As Immanuel Kant used to say, "It don't make me no nevermind...
...what if you're only a first-year? Have you been neglecting your senior thesis for the past few months? Well, exam period is the perfect time to start that first chapter. Immersing yourself in thesis reading, even if you happen to be writing on Kant, Hegel and "retributive theories of punishment," is still much more appealing than cramming for tomorrow's final...
Ironically, the rights rhetoric now deployed by conservative jurists has an exceptionally liberal pedigree. Ever since classical liberals like Locks and Kant fought for individual rights and democratic processes, their work was conceived primarily as an effort to limit the power of overbearing state authorities. They conceived of individuals' fundamental rights as primarily negative liberties--rights to individual action untrammelled by others' interference...
...bring too many books to read "just for fun." Two or three may give a break from Kant, but more than that will just take up shelf space and gather dust. You will hardly ever have time to read for fun, and even if you did, there are millions of books in Widener, Lamont, Pusey...
...this has been the main response of Western arts and letters since Darwin, and its products have ranged from the sentimental agnosticism of Matthew Arnold to the brutal existentialism of Sartre. The second is the path of gleeful Philistinism, which glories in exposing the rubes like Plato, Aquinas and Kant whose faith in human divnity has been overthrown by the glittering progress of Science...