Word: kant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kant's categorical imperative, which would seem to favor "each house taking care of its own" to the exclusion of other students, doesn't apply to lunch, Kiely said...
...other bad European idea that liberals now accept uncritically is idealism, which came to us from Kant. Idealism refuses to accept the existence of non-ideal facts about human behavior, like prejudice and sexual aggression. According to this system of belief, only rational beings are morally worthy and deserving of respect. An idealistic enterprise like political correctness therefore refuses to compromise with reality or to stop proselytizing until every trace of irrational prejudice--esp. racial, sexual, and homophobic--is eradicated. Idealism leads to the desire to make real people into ideal people, no matter what the costs...
...question, they say, boils down to oneSandel has asked in his very lectures: Which ismore important, Aristotle's good or Kant'sright--the good for the whole class to have evenlydistributed grades or the right of the individualstudents to be evaluated independently of a curve...
Shara Cottam '94, who took Justice lastsemester, appears to agree with Kant. She ways shethought the grade distribution was unfair, despiteits reliance on the assumption that section have arandom composition...
...have a fun party in a 12 x 12 common room. In most student suites, more than 15 people is synonymous with sauna. Furthermore, there is a justifiable psychological need to spend one's leisure time outside one's place of study. Partying while surrounded by bookshelves full of Kant and Foucault can definitely put a damper on the mood...