Word: priories
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this leads to the point that the issues must be seen on their intrinsic merits. This surely will not mean a total retreat from the world, that enchanting idyll of no known past. But here and there disengagements from some present undertakings should not a priori be foreclosed. On the other hand, reconsiderations may issue in more strenuous efforts at openness, particularly in the policy sciences and their research centers. Conscious receptivity to destructive criticism of conventionally accepted limits n policy can after all well be defended on both intellectual and pragmatic grounds...
...detrimental to the Summer School to condescend either on an academic or social level toward its summer guests. Simply because they don't go to Harvard or Radcliffe is no reason to convict them a priori of stupidity or irresponsibility...
...distinction between the "warm" "democratic" "people loving" "New" left and the cold calculating "Old" left is a cry that has been heard over and over again--most recently in an article appearing in an August issue of Mr. Buckley's National Review. Again Mr. Hessler adopts this a-priori assertion rather than an argument, that somehow providing an intellectual framework which we think clarifies action makes us "cold hearted...
...questioned intensively before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At the time he stated that he thought professors who took the fifth should be fired. Several weeks later, speaking before his final Faculty meeting, Conant voiced a dislike for the investigations, and said that the University had no a priori policy regarding professors who appeared before congressional committees. Still, his comments before the Foreign Relations Committee and the Sutherland-Chafee statement would seem to have been all the precedent the University needed to fire Wendell Furry for his refusal to testify in February...
...student radicals seem to perceive any conflict between their underlying existential philosophies and their Marxist sympathies. There is certainly a strong psychological link between the two. Anyone drawn to the uncompromising individualism of existentialism with its rejection of a priori moral authority is likely to have an opposing urge to commit himself entirely to authority. That is a commonplace in psychology, but it is often forgotten by those who notice the intellectual inconsistency between the two positions. Sartre easily fits the existentialist-Marxist pattern of deep ambivalence to authority, if the childhood he describes in The Words is any indication...