Word: kante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice followed me, humbly and at a distance like a spaniel. "Monique, why did you skip class? We were studying the Critique of Pure Reason. It was interesting, but I think Kant offers a false dichotomy. The only viable solution is to provide a synthesis in which experience is impregnated with rationality and reason is ordained to empirical data...
...authors discussed were and continue to be uncompromisingly first class, from Aeschylus and Aristotle to Balzac and Brillat-Savarin, from Dante and Dostoevsky to Thucydides and Thackeray. Invitation to Learning is the only network program in the U.S. to devote full half-hour discussions consistently to such books as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Aquinas' Being and Essence, and Agricola's De Re Metallica...
...wondered whether his brain was up to par. When he was twelve, he got a copy of Euclid's Geometry, Thirty years later, Einstein recalled: "It made me realize that man is capable, through the force of thought alone, of achieving . . . stability and purity." At 13 he read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Still, it took him two attempts to pass the entrance exams to Zurich Polytechnicum...
...commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume of Philosopher Immanuel Kant...
...American Industrial Society and Philosophy & Literature. Since science and engineering will still be the center of the plan, M.I.T. students will in effect be taking a "double major," will find themselves gulping down bigger doses than ever before of everything from Plato to Dante, Sophocles to Aquinas, Hobbes and Kant and Dewey, laced with Locke, Marx and Dickens...