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...anniversary of its seven hundredth birthday. This month the University of Naples has been doing the same. St. Thomas Aquinas, a student there for six years, is its most illustrious graduate. On the six hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his death, which happened to be the two hundredth of Kant's, Cardinal Mercier delivered the oration in the Church of San Domenico Maggiore, where Aquinas used to lecture...
...attack of reason on faith, he should also have demanded, to be just, that Religion keep off the property of Science, by refraining from the distortion by faith of the latter's principles in its realm of facts. Let our faith and our reason be kept apart, as Kant recommended some two hundred years ago, for neither is to be trusted when it wanders from home. It matters not what belief tells us about how, or when, or where this, or that, or the other thing happened in Biblical times, but it does matter what we believe about...
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...