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...certainly not in need of an overhaul along the lines of Kavulla’s suggestions. Am I indeed a more liberally educated person if I take Philosophy 168 instead of Michael Sandel’s “Justice”? Or do I know a lot about Kant while having missed out on Aristotle, Locke, Mill and Rawls...
...Larry Summers puts it, a member of the “educated company of man,” one must have an empathy and understanding for a variety of subjects. And in earlier days, this also meant a fundamental set of knowledge: all Harvard students read Aristotle, Plato and Kant...
What Franklin modestly described as his "electrical amusements" made him the world's most famous scientist. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant called him the "new Prometheus." Most important, Franklin's fame helped open French hearts--and purse strings--when years later he came calling at Louis XVI's court on behalf of his embattled young nation. As the French financier Turgot would say of the kite flyer from Philadelphia, "He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants...
...false dichotomy of nature vs. nurture became. Whether human nature is born or made is an ancient conundrum discussed by Plato and Aristotle. Empiricist philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume argued that the human mind was formed by experience; nativists like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant held that there was such a thing as immutable human nature...
DIED. ROBERT MERTON, 92, erudite sociologist and onetime aspiring magician whose knowledge of everything from Kant to baseball made his work, notably the 1969 book On the Shoulders of Giants, widely influential; in New York City. Coiner of the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy" and inventor of the focus group (whose abuse he later deplored), he propounded a theory of social deviance popular among liberal politicians in the 1960s, which held that such behavior results when society promotes the same goals to everyone without giving all access to achieve them...