Word: kants
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...show that the White House library, in its present projected form, cannot truly be the library of a cultivated man, it is sufficient to mention a few names. In history, Thucydides and Gibbon. In philosophy, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas and Kant. In political theory, Machiavelli, Locke, and Marx. In literature, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Rabelais and Cervantes. It may be argued that these authors are not crucial to the working reference library of an American President. But certainly they deserve as much place in such a library as (to choose an unfair example) Herbert Warren Wind's The Story...
Harry's new girl friend tells him that she may be falling in love with a young poet, pale and philosophic. "Plato, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, St. Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon, David Hume, Paracelsus, Bishop Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, Descartes and Pico della Mirandola," says Harry, proving himself the young man's intellectual peer. This Harry is a versatile man with words as well as ideas. When a street singer ambles past him, he tells the street singer in Anglo-Saxon syllables to go copulate with a duck...
Alfred North Whitehead--himself an adorable genius--applies that term to James in Science and the Modern World. The aptness of the adjective is beyond question; the the truth of the noun, nearly so. For, though James lacked the light-shattering ingenuity of Newton and the monumental style of Kant, his gifts were nonetheless striking. His writings abound in magnificent arrays of quotable passages. His works teem with provocative insights--too many, perhaps, ever to be fully systematized. But, most of all, James radiates moral greatness. His openness of mind and eagerness to defend underdogs, his freedom from vanity...
...systematic, i.e., organized around a specific subject. I would categorize these as follows: two humanistic, 11 technical, and one borderline. Among 100-group courses as a whole, Continental philosophy since the 17th century is represented almost entirely by one course on idealism, one on phenomenology, and one on Kant's epistomology, while Medieval philosophy is not represented...
...insulated community that ensured conformance to tradition. Emancipation freed the Jew from the confines of community, and coming in contact with the ideas of the Enlightenment freed him from reliance on the tradition of Jewish theology. But the price of liberty was high. Under the influence of Lessing and Kant, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) stripped Judaism of its supernatural quality by arguing that it was essentially a rational faith. Even the greatest of modern Jewish thinkers, Jerusalem's influential "existential humanist" Martin Buber, dramatically envisions Judaism as an encounter between the "I" of man and the "Thou...