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Madly Christian. Cobb faults modern philosophy for drawing too sharp a metaphysical distinction between man and his environment. Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Sartre-none has granted the subhuman world "a reality such that it can be the object of man's concern," he writes. Theology has followed suit. A weak faith in the value of creation tends to undermine belief in the Creator, and vice versa. Man is left only with his self-interest, which, however enlightened, will not provide sufficient motivation for ecological survival...
...managed to combine this type of game with some exciting plays in the second half. Up until that time, perhaps the most excitement had come from the band's dancing prop men and the band's skillful integration of the philosophical and the musical when they spelled out Emmanuel Kant's surname and played a fine rendition of "Feeling Groovy." But B. U., after driving to the Harvard five-yard line on rushing, passed to Gary Capehart for the touchdown. Rick Frisbie and Fred Martucci weren't exactly expecting it. J. Bennington Peers and other stick-to-the-system people...
...works so that an edition of Bruckner could be published; a man who said just before his death that "poor Schoenberg will have no one left"; a man who spent all of his precious years perfecting his interoperations of Tristan, Fidelio, and The Magic Flute; a man who read Kant aloud to his wife during Children. The following tentative remarks are intended only to be suggestive, hopefully with minimum distortion, for to slightly alter Artur Schnabel's dictum, "Great composers are greater than they can be explained...
Thus one of the few antitheses which as any applicability to Mahler is his disciplined, complex response to diversity while believing in an irreducible, if ultimately unvoiceable permanency in life. The milieu of is world may be suggested by the names Eichendorff, Haupmann, Strauss, Kant, Sclegel, Mozart, the Mass, and Goethe: a weird assemblage which yielded a mind disposed to mystical and ironical visions, but always wit a resilient core of innocent he is accused of innocent simplicity. And this is almost certainly the reason e is accused of parody. As Tovey wrote...
...readiness with which violence is afterward excused, and the seemingly convincing arguments which are bought forth to justify it before and after the act. Worst and most dangerous of all, there seems to be a tendency in our society to legitimize the results of violence so that, as Kant put it, the God of success afterwards serves as advocate for the violent action that preceded it and suggests its future...