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Thus begins Kung's eight-hundred-page descent into philosophical, anti-Christian hell, down through the depths of skepticism, Deism, atheism, and finally "nihilism," which Kung defines as the denial of all reality. He burns to prove that it is "rational" to believe in an ultimate reality, and that this...
Kung feels he can refute Nietzsche by proving it is "rational" to believe in reality. He doesn't do it very well. True, he points out that no one can prove reality doesn't exist. Equally true, however, no one can prove it does. So belief in reality must remain...
"The proposal doesn't give as much student autonomy over student issues as we would have liked to have seen," Andrew B. Herrmann '82, chairman of the Student Assembly, said, adding that the report contains no fundamental concessions on decision-making by students on student issues. "But it is a...
The futility of intense soul-searching ultimately turns this guilt to the question of religion--did God create homosexuals as they are? But such an attempt must overcome a hoary stumbling-block of philosophical disputation--the problem of free will versus necessity. A view that sees sexual preferences as determined...
The Coop's corps of management officials can not be entirely faulted for the worker's major grievance--the low wages paid many of the company's employees. The low pay-scale is a rational response to the transient nature of the Square's labor force. Many of the stock...