nced confidently (and absurdly) at the Council of Trent in response to Luther’s Reformation. But there was no turning back. As the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote, the motto of the era could best be summarized as: Dare to know! “The Enlightenment,” he explained, “requires nothing but freedom.” This, it e

k: Basic Books, 1968), Bk. 5, pp. 461- 465. ** Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 2, chpt. 3. °° Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, 3, i1, p. 115. Page |39 **Tmmanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1959), p. 49. *7Stephen Pope, “The Order of Love in Recent Roman Catholic Et

IGHT_023160 --- PAGE BREAK --- OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi The Crooked Course: Step by Step on the Path to Peace INTRODUCTION As Immanuel Kant observed, “out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.” And the Middle East peace process is no exception. It runs a crook

th reason. There is nothing higher than reason. —Immanuel Kant What is school for? A common answer is, to make

al basis of our public life, our social organisation, has come from within us - by aspiration and by light, not by some process of logical deduction. Immanuel Kant referred to our inner impulses as "the higher self", an unconscious search for truth, going deeply into ourselves to establish who we are and what we

al basis of our public life, our social organisation, has come from within us - by aspiration and by light, not by some process of logical deduction. Immanuel Kant referred to our inner impulses as "the higher self", an unconscious search for truth, going deeply into ourselves to establish who we are and what we

al basis of our public life, our social organisation, has come from within us - by aspiration and by light, not by some process of logical deduction. Immanuel Kant referred to our inner impulses as "the higher self", an unconscious search for truth, going deeply into ourselves to establish who we are and what we

eply about right and wrong, and this disagreement extends to philosophers who cannot be accused of being ignorant or confused. If great thinkers like Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham disagree about what we ought to do, can there really be an objectively true answer to that question? Parfit's response to this lin

ture doesn’t need us, Wired. April 2000. Kam91. George Kampis. Self-Modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science. Plenum Press, 1991. Kané64. Immanuel Kant. Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. Harper and Row, 1964. Kap08. F. Kaplan. Neurorobotics: an experimental science of embodiment. Frontiers in