Word: kante
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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...
...Bicker procedure are obviously reared. It's the oldest truth in creation that there is evil in the universe and it is as a realistic schooling in the world's folly and wickedness that Bicker is usually defended. In letting her students, after months of reading Plato and Kant, Milton and Thoreau, pass complacently through the two weeks of Bicker, Princeton may well be defeating her own highest efforts at cultivating an operative system of values, and inducing in her sons the refined sort of ethical blindness which tactfully refrains from seriously applying standards of what is right in adjusting...
From Essence to Existence. "I am an existentialist," Tillich is fond of telling people, and he writes: "Immanuel Kant once said that mathematics is the good luck of human reason. In the same way, one could say that existentialism is the good luck of Christian theology. It has helped to rediscover the classical Christian interpretation of human existence...
Another new course in modern European history will be History 153, "History of German Thought from Kant to Spengler," to be given in the spring term. The course will be taught by Claus W. Epstein '48, assistant professor of History and will feature Hegel as the central figure in the course...