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...Gelasius in the 5th century, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum today generally condemns books on religion not approved by Catholic authorities and books "against faith and morals," including all Communist books. Specifically condemned are some 6,000 works by 4,000 authors (among them: Addison, Balzac, Dumas, father and son, Kant, Spinoza, Voltaire), which Catholics may not read without special permission...
Believers & Atheists. Existentialists find themselves in head-on collision with the most widely accepted tenets of many great philosophers-Plato, Descartes, Kant, Spinoza and Hegel. Their particular enemy is Hegel, for his insistence that all reality can be encompassed in a rational structure. It was this that inspired the melancholy Dane, Sören Kierkegaard (1813-55), to raise the flag of philosophic revolt against all purely rationalist and positivist systems, and to declare that reality and truth are within man himself and his actions, whether they be rational or no. Kierkegaard argued that the central, all-important fact about...
...face of a Cossack whip and its blow on the back of a padded coat." He studied law briefly at Moscow, then enrolled as a philosophy major in Germany's University of Marburg under a pudgy intellectual martinet, Professor Hermann Cohen, a disciple of Hegel and Kant. In the Gothic-fairy-tale mountain town of Marburg, with its steeply sloping streets and medieval gables, his first serious love came to 18-year-old Boris Pasternak. When the girl turned down his offer of marriage, "[I found] my face was twitching and my eyes constantly filled with tears...
Donald C. Williams, professor of Philosophy, will join Aiken in teaching another new Fall course, "Hume and Kant...
Powerful Sanctions. What causes the difference? One theory, notes Yale Sociology Professor Charles R. Snyder in Alcohol and the Jews (Free Press, Yale Center of Alcohol Studies; $5), was advanced by Philosopher Immanuel Kant: he thought that Jews clung to moderation for fear of incurring censure from the society surrounding them. A more convincing theory, Snyder believes, is the Jewish emphasis on food, "so that 'compulsive' eating is more likely to be selected as a means of alleviating psychic tensions [than] addictive drinking." He cites one psychological study showing that Jewish mothers' anxiety about their children...