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Between your trips down, scan your Kant...
...Kant, Can't, Can't," the Faculty address, was given by Dr. Daniel D. Federman, assistant dean of the Medical School's Faculty...
...Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., where he was elected class president and outstanding student, he discovered the works of Hegel and Kant. Here also he was exposed to the writings of Mohandas Gandhi, whose mystic faith in nonviolent protest became King's lodestar. "From my background," he said, "I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique." Indeed, Gandhi's word for his doctrine, satyagraha, becomes in translation King's slogan, "soul force...
...insanity, and seeing, in his last months, the apotheosis of his greatest enemy-how did it come about that this man, after his death, triumphed over Voltaire, revived religion, transformed education, elevated the morals of France, inspired the Romantic movement and the French Revolution, influenced the philosophy of Kant and Schopenhauer, the plays of Schiller, the novels of Goethe, the poems of Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley, the socialism of Marx, the ethics of Tolstoi, and, altogether, had more effect on posterity than any other writer or thinker of that eighteenth century in which writers were more influential than they...
...prodding, the new Under Secretary last week catalogued his initial impressions before the Foreign Service officers who run what Ball fondly called "the fudge factory." After a quote-heavy speech, with references ranging all the way from Lyndon Johnson and Oliver Cromwell to Heraclitus and Anatole France (commenting on Kant), Katzenbach concluded: "Can I urge each and every one of you that you have got political problems at home and that you should be as shrewd observers and as concerned about politics here in the United States-about what public opinion is and about what the Congress is doing...