Word: kants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This particular law undoubtedly works injustice to individuals: many will argue that they lose no more by cutting their class after a holiday than their fifth or fifteenth, whereas the corresponding gain may be very great. But this time it is not a question of the individual. Kant's "categorical imperative" fits the case conveniently: If everyone did as the individual feels inclined to do, there would be empty classrooms on the day before and after each holiday. Professors, rather than waste their lectures, would agree not to hold classes that day; students would proceed to extend the vacation still...
...respond quickly to the beauties and wonders of the world. He must have a profound mind, so that he has a big philosophy of life; for every great poet is also a great philosopher, and yet he does not put his philosophy before us in the form of a Kant, a William James, or a Josiah Royce. For these men deal largely in abstract expression and make no great effort to wrap their truth in the veil of beauty. The poet, however, must deal concretely with life and must always fold his truth in the veil of beauty. A poem...
Readers of C. S. Parker's "American Idyll" will remember how a "Wobbly" asked Charleton H. Parker to lend him Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" to read in jail. That "Wobbly" was J. T. Doran, better known as "Red", who will uphold the doctrines of the Industrial Workers of the World in this evening's meeting. He has given lectures on "Syndicalism" in many universities of the west...
...There are many things in life I want to reconcile: . . . . . the vigor and beauty of the Bible and the rusticity of its writers; the philosophic acceptance of a First Cause as inconscient as the telephone, and the strong inclination to say one's prayers; the faculty to cope with Kant and the childlike aptitude for faith; the sheepishness of the Shakespearean mask and the sublimity of the poet; the greatness of Queen Elizabeth and the pretentiousness of her virginity; the grace of Charles the Martyr and his unending folly; the greasy corpulence of Gautier and the perfection of his verse...
...addition to a number of first editions, among which are included Locke's "Essay on Government," Descartes' "Discours de la Methode," Pasoal's "Pensees," and Kant's "Critique," there are several original manuscripts and volumes annotated by the authors. The notes to one of Fichte's lectures, in his own handwriting, and a letter of Descattes, are two notable examples. The exhibition will be on view for two more weeks...