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...Feelings" is not a good word when you're talking "art," because a bad production is a bad production, no matter how nice the actors or directors are. As Kant has pointed out, "One must not be in the least prepossessed in favor of the real existence of the thing...in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste." Often, however, dwelling on an individual's feelings is gratuitious and self-indulgent, and when a critic is far removed from the theater he tends to forget that...
...often confronted by people who think that Judaism is nothing more than a set of moral values that are the precursors of modern liberalism. They locate the Jewish tradition more in the tradition of Kant and Rawls than in Moses and Hillel. The truth is that modern-day Jews who form such a large part of the mainstream of philosophers and liberal thinkers can no more lay claim to Jewish tradition than Friedrich Nietzsche could to Lutheranism...
Previous Crimson articles have said that faith in rules amounts, in a case like this, to "petty proceduralism." I guess I just remember one day in Justice, in my first year, when Michael Sandel quoted Kant as saying, "Let justice be done though the heavens may fall." I agree that we all need to be more aware of the El Salvador crisis. But my agreement is irrelevant. What is most important is that all members of the Harvard community can feel secure in their right to make their own choices and in their right of privacy. Brian Brooks...
...HERMANN KANT...
...action was quick. The Senior Tutor crushed the party in its infancy (1 p.m.). Those who resisted were Ad Boarded and made to parse Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and get up early enough for breakfast four days...