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...essay 'Perpetual Peace,' the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote that world peace would come about in one of two ways: after a cycle of wars of ever increasing violence, or by an act of moral insight in which the nations of the world renounced the bitter competition bound to lead to self-destruction. Our age faces precisely that choice...
...said Henry Kissinger as he began his presentation last week before the Senate committees analyzing the SALT II accord. By the time the former Secretary of State had completed 7 ½ hours of testimony, he had moved beyond Kant in arguing forcefully that today the U.S. must seek peace by pursuing two parallel paths: one attempting to find areas of cooperation with the Soviet Union and the other ensuring that the nation's military arsenal is strong enough to preserve the balance of power. Kissinger's appearance helped transform the proceedings into one of the most probing analyses...
...trying to take on Charlie was my wish to understand him-an ambition which I haven't satisfied." He repeats that note of puzzlement throughout the book, drawing in a variety of marginal characters who scratch their heads at the ideas and jargon of philosophers like Hegel and Kant...
...weeks, his students contemplate man as moral animal. The reading list is long and demanding: Socrates, Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Sartre, Emerson, Dostoyevsky, Marx and Lenin. Frequently the class dwells on the unfair ness of fate as illustrated by Job in the Bible, by Camus in The Plague, by Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. And by James Stockdale as a sorely tested P.O.W...
...well recede from our grasp, supplanted by systems that aspire to control human destiny. Barrett contends that philosophy can recall us to that world. To support his claim he cites three modern figures: Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James. However divergent in their styles of thought, they shared Kant's conviction that freedom was the principal issue philosophy had to address. For Wittgenstein, freedom resides in the ambiguity of language; for Heidegger, in the fluid, indeterminate character of being; for William James, in the workings of a moral will. What Kant considered the "other two grand questions...