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Many a night James Calisch sat until dawn with young Emanuel Silberstein, who would come around from 57th St. to interrogate and dispute upon the writings of Spinoza, the Jew of Amsterdam; of morbid Schopenhauer, neurotic Nietzsche, recondite Kant. Emanuel was regarded by himself and his family, as a mental prodigy. He had made public orations in the Liberty Loan drives at the age of 10. He had finished high school at 16 and, after a nervous breakdown, read long and late at philosophy and psychology, screwed up in a corner with his scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose...
...Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). It was to unite and reinterpret these objections, to save religion from reason and at the same time preserve science from skepticism, that Kant paraded methodically under the lindens at Konigsberg. He accomplished his task and inaugurated the era of critical philosophy by showing: that not all knowledge is sensory, Space and Time being a priori; that while matter its.elf cannot be known, its existence can be known, its laws known as fixed; that we are born with mental categories from which there is no escape, categories implying an imperative morality and a necessity for religion...
...current conflict between religion and science" not, apparently, in a matter which assumes to settle the question ex-cathedra, but in a way to present the vital elements of the subject. The report says: "The course should present the philosophy of Plato, that of Aristotle, of the Stoics, of Kant, of one of the Moderns, say Bergson, and possibly one or two others." Though the committee does not say so, in presenting this demand it is echoing the ideas of Professor William James, who with his philosophy is surely to be included in the "one or two others." No philosopher...
...course should present the philosophy of Plato, that of Aristotle, of the Stoics, of Kant of one of the moderns, say Bergson, and possibly one or two others. In addition to these individual philosophies, the committee recommends the innovation of including the philosophy of Christianity in the work of the course. This suggestion is not made in a missionary or crusading spirit, but is dictated as a remedy for the prevailing ignorance concerning so important a subject...
Before my trip to Fogg I shall be found in Emerson D, where I look forward to the glowing colors in which Professor Hecklers will paint the critical idealism of Kant. Since Professor Murray has reached the keystone in his course on the drama in England until 1642 I cannot deny myself the privilege of a new attitude Shakespeare. So, the 12 o'clock bell will send me to Harvard...