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...Kant! Adler gave regular pep talks to the staff. As they tackled each new idea, he would point out mistakes, make suggestions, urge them to hit that line. Sample: "Aristotle and Aquinas are doing fine, but Kant, Descartes, Plotinus, etc. must catch up ... Under Topic 2b, I find only three references to Aristotle, and three to Locke. This cannot be all!! Something has got to be done about this . . . We cannot rest on such a random collection with such a major topic. I am sure I am right. Don't give...
...introduction to Maurer's book, Chinese Scholar Hu Shih remarks that this concluding piece of wisdom is very close to Immanuel Kant's doctrine of the Categorical Imperative: "So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end in itself, never as a means only." It is also very close to the wisdom of the New Testament, which, says Maurer in effect, might make a better basis for a foreign policy toward Asia than the one the West has been using for a long time...
...Descartes' most disastrous bequest, says Van Dusen, was his distinction between thought and matter-a dualism which became in Kant the divorce between reality as revealed by faith, and reality as revealed through the senses. The result today is the frightening schism "between facts and values, between the realm of science and the realm of art and religion; more recently between the secular and the spiritual." (Ironically, says Van Dusen, both Descartes and Kant had been illumined by a firm faith in God as the ultimate truth. "The history of human thought knows no more pathetic paradox than...
...Kimpton left Chicago to become dean of students at Stanford. There he stayed for three years, a gregarious, wisecracking lion of campus parties, a lucid, articulate teacher of a course in Kant. In & out of class he plugged the Hutchins line so successfully that Stanford next fall is revamping its rigid curriculum to permit bright students to push ahead into advanced study. When Hutchins persuaded him to return to Chicago as vice president in charge of university development, Stanford students howled in protest. The Stanford Daily put out a special issue dedicated to him. The graduating class made...
...Lewis one of the best living philosophers, gives Phill 130 on Kant and 152 on the Theory of Knowledge. His lectures are informal, well delivered, but occassionally repetitive. Both courses are fairly difficult, but freshmen should try to take them next year...