Word: kant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, if Harvard could only teach her young one thing, it should be that they have a critical role to play in society. The hours we spend grappling with Kant and agonizing over physics should not be in vain. Our education here must be placed in a context of developing ourselves to become better citizens who can meaningfully impact a community. Otherwise our four years here are reduced to nothing more than an expensive intellectual vacation...
...find one's own voice. This search is something which I found lacking at Harvard. Harvard students are great at name-dropping. Often I would get into philosophical arguments with my fellow concentrators only to realize that it wasn't them with whom I was arguing but rather Kant, Hegel and others. Creative writing classes allow students to find their own voice within the numerous voices of past minds. This is the academic ideal--being able to synthesize the voices of the Great Minds with...
...White's assumption seems to be that exclusion defines academic worth. Since "everyone" can read fairy tales, they must not be important. What he fails to realize is that folktales touch a larger portion of people's lives than subjects such as philosophy. Not everyone has read Kant, but almost everyone is familiar with Cinderella. Analysis of these folktales can reveal a great deal about culture and beliefs which may not be immediately apparent because these stories are so prevalent. One might as well argue that the English department is useless because everyone has read Mark Twain. Clare Sammells...
...were in Rawls' original position, you certainly would feel differently. Actually, Rawls once wrote that recruiting was the root of all injustice in the world. He called for it to be banned. As I explain in my thesis, many writers in the liberal-individualistic tradition of Kant have written against...
Asked why she reads these publications, Naomi L.Reid '97 says: "It's a nice break from Kant...