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Immanuel Kant

License To Philosophize, Sinatra-style

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.01.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Corinthians, Jimmy-Van-Heusen, Fleetwoods, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Immanuel Kant, Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, Songwriting, Sammy Cahn, Friedrich Nietzsche, Five Satins, Video, Fifty News
Michael Sigman

When you reach a certain age and no longer have a job where large numbers of people are incentivized to laugh at your jokes, moments arise when you wo...

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To the Birthday Boys and Girls of April 22

James Heffernan | Posted 04.22.2013 | Weird News
Read More: Bettie Page, Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, Eleazer Wheelock, Madame De Stael, Henry Fielding, Weird News News
James Heffernan

Here's a little toast to the birthday boys and girls of April 22

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Who's Got It Right About the European Union: David Cameron or Alfred Nobel?

Tad Daley | Posted 04.02.2013 | World
Read More: Winston Churchill, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Baha'u'llah, Jean Monnet, David Cameron, War, Robert Schumann, Baha'i Faith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, European Union, Nobel Peace Prize, Peace, Baha'i, Nuclear Weapons, Victor Hugo, Immanuel Kant, Science Fiction, World News
Tad Daley

Since everything else -- our economies, our communications, our single planetary environment -- succumbs more completely to globalization every day, shouldn't we eventually bring about a complete globalization of our structures of governance as well?

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A Drug-Maker's Ethical 'Mistakes'

Dana Radcliffe | Posted 10.06.2012 | Business
Read More: Conflicts of Interest, Pharmaceutical Industry, Glaxosmithkline, Fda, Drug Industry, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Immanuel Kant, Informed Consent, Avandia, Healthcare Fraud, Business Ethics, Business News
Dana Radcliffe

Pharmaceutical giant Glaxo made profits in ways that manipulated the choices of doctors and sometimes resulted in patients' being subjected to significant risks without their informed consent.

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Is That All There Is? Conversion, Recursion And Excursion

Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 04.23.2012 | Religion
Read More: Temporality, Martin Heidegger, Phenomenology, Franz Brentano, Immanuel Kant, Conversion, CRX Time, Recursion, Crx, Excursion, Mind, Religion News
Dimitri Hamlin

Conversion describes the gathering of the present; it is the unity of the present with the modes of being past and future.

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What Is Death?

Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 10.18.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Aging, Time, Wisdom, Consciousness, Immortality, Death and Dying, Immanuel Kant, Healthy Living News
Robert Lanza, M.D.

Reality is observer-determined -- it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately, means that things must change.

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Davos 2011: Immanuel Kant, 21st Century CEO

Kari Stoever | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Leadership, Davos 2011, Malnutrition, Water Scarcity, Food Security, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Dwight Eisenhower, Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, Klaus Schwab, Financial TImes, Principles for Responsible Investing, Immanuel Kant, Values-Based Investing, Wef, World Economic Forum, Business News
Kari Stoever

What if we redefined the stakeholder as the consumer, the human being at the receiving end of every decision a CEO is forced to make?

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Could This Theory Provide A Glimpse Of Our Ultimate Destiny?

Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Time, Robert Lanza, Immanuel Kant, Reality, Biocentrism Robert Lanza, The Inner Life, Biocentrism, Albert Einstein, Universe, Healthy Living News
Robert Lanza, M.D.

Have you ever wondered what it's really all about? How does this little life of ours fits into the larger picture -- into a reality so huge the Universe itself is but a speck?

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Book Sex

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Multimedia-Books, Art Books, MoMA P.S.1, Cunt, Books, Immanuel Kant, Sonorama, NY Art Book Fair, Books News
Jan Herman

Kant was also born in 1724, a coincidence not lost on Editions Silverbridge, the publisher of Birth of the Cunt. The video was recorded Nov. 5, 2010...

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Kant on the Campaign Trail

Tom Silva | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Msnbc, Civil Disobedience, Rush Limbaugh, Campaign Trail, 2010 Elections, 2010 Election, Elections 2010, Immanuel Kant, Fox News, Enlightenment, Bill Maher, Politics News
Tom Silva

As election season nears, we once again find ourselves in the hot zone of political rhetoric and cable-news hysterics. Many of you will remember the ...

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Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Anti-Semitism, Shoah, Pbs, The Partition, Gaza Blockade, Turkey, Gaza, Pehr Granqvist, Hamas, Jose Liht, Israeli Defense Force, Holocaust Deniers, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Rafah, Immanuel Kant, Ummah, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Media Watch, Holocaust, Suicide Bombers, Terrorism, Pakistan, Noah Efron, Gaza Flotilla, Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships, Robert Satloff, Templeton Foundation, Darfur, Lahore, Fraser Watts, Operation Cast Lead, Bar Ilan University, Riyadh, Muslim, Among-the-Righteous, Cambridge University, Tom Friedman, Itamar Marcus, Ahmadiyya Movement, Thomas Friedman, Kathleen Taylor, World News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

When will we understand that Israel's security problem is everyone's security problem, that a threatened Jew is a threatened Muslim?

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Bernard-Henri Levy caught out by fake philosopher

Telegraph UK | Henry Samuel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Jean-Baptiste Botul, France, Kant, French Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, On War in Philosophy, Books, Bernard-Henri Levy, Philosophy, Books News

France's best-known philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy, has become the butt of intellectual ridicule after copiously quoting a leading authority on Kant...

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The GOP, Hooked on Hate: Three Traits All Toxic Political Movements Share

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Hate-Speech, Hate, Richard Restak, Federal Budget Deficit, Ayn Rand, M. Scott Peck, Sarah Palin, Immanuel Kant, Fox News, Alfred Adler, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Marcella Mroczkowski

Republicans in the age of Al-Qaeda have morphed into a Western, Christianist, mirror-image of their Islamist enemies. Bad political movements, like Tolstoy's happy families, are all alike. Look for three traits.

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How Would You Decide? -- Part II

Jim Lichtman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Susan Atkins, Living News, What Do You Stand For?, The Golden Rule, Peter Westbrook, Sharon Tate, Ethics, Charles Manson, Immanuel Kant, Justice, Compassion, Michael Josephson, Healthy Living News
Jim Lichtman

I asked readers to imagine sitting on the California parole board to decide whether to grant convicted murderer Susan Atkins "compassionate release" based on her terminally ill condition.

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