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...died in 1947 at the age of 86, after teaching at Cambridge, the University of London and Harvard. In his newly published A Christian Natural Theology (Westminster; $6.50), Methodist John Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology hails Whitehead as the philosophical peer of Plato, Aristotle and Kant and argues that his complex thought provides a way "to restore the term 'God' to meaningful discourse in some real continuity with its historic...
...most part, tube watchers are uneasy and evasive when asked why they stay hooked. "I just wanted to punt," some will admit. More often it's "Why shouldn't I? Besides, it hurts my eyes to read Kant." And among addicts there is a lot of self-hate. When the final "thought for today" has been fired off, the Star Spangled Banner has yet waved, and only fuzz fills the screen, there is little jubilation. It is usually more like it was at Harvard the other night. "Well, another day shot to shingles...
...tenure vacancy, and Professor Paul Weiss called the committee's decision "stupid, unfair, dismaying." Professor Robert S. Brumbaugh pointed out that under the committee's criteria, "we could not have gotten tenure for Aristotle when he was 32, we could not have gotten it for Kant, and on a much homelier level, I could not have gotten it." After the wave of criticism, the committee decided to consider reopening the case...
...Insight is Lonergan's attempt to understand the human act of understanding-an inquiry into "the dynamism of inquiry" that centers on "a personal appropriation of one's own rational self-consciousness." Lonergan's viewpoint is inherited from Aristotle and Aquinas, but has been expanded by Kant and Freud. Using a vocabulary uniquely his own, he has written a general field theory of the mind-the origin and nature of human insight, how it relates to its various forms of expression, whether in the formulas of the physicist, the word pictures of the poet, the concepts...
...Coop charges $5.50 for MacMillan's Smith translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. It is available at Mandrake...