Word: kante
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...latest edition of the Index (1948) lists 4,126 titles-all of them books banned since 1600. Many of the names it includes must have popped up on Father Burke's old University of Illinois reading lists. Among them: Voltaire, Kant, Montesquieu, Descartes, Spinoza, Anatole France, Emile Zola, John Stuart Mill, Francis Bacon, Hugo Grotius, Gustave Flaubert, Maurice Maeterlinck...
...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...
...Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein. † New coinage meaning "collection of topics." * Positivists are the philosophical school, virtually dominant...
...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...