... called the timing ‘unfortunate’, but pleaded that there was a ‘limited availability of appropriate large venue options.’ I find that rather surprising If the President of Brandeis needed a lecture ... notion that every part of it Page of needs to be self-supporting is simply at variance with what a university is all about You seem to value entre preneurial programs and practical subjects that might ... which now, of course, you don’t As for the argument that the humanities don’t pay their own way, well, I guess that’s true, but it seems to me that there’s a fallacy in assuming that a university...
... sure the latest CUNY data cabling installation would support the University s future needs The City UniversityofNewYork CUNY is the largest urban university and the third largest public university ... higher learning, the City UniversityofNewYork s mandate is to offer a powerful academic program at affordable costs CUNY’s roots date back to 1847, with the founding of the Free Academy by Townsend ... features world-renowned scholars teaching THE CITY UNIVERSITYOFNEWYORK NOW BOASTS 10 SENIOR COLLEGES, SIX COMMUNITY COLLEGES, A DOCTORAL-GRANTING GRADUATE SCHOOL, A LAW SCHOOL, AN ACCELERATED...
... Nishitani TRANSLATED BY Seisaku Yamamoto and Robert E Carter INTRODUCTION BY Robert E Carter FOREWORD BY Jan Van Bragt State UniversityofNewYork Press Published by State UniversityofNewYork Press, ... cutting off of the metaphysical roots that chart a path out of nihilistic despair What we need is a pathway that leads us toward a perspective of interconnectedness with each other, the world of nature, ... searches out the path of religion, that is, of religion as a way of life Therefore, we can say in a word that the subject matter of religion consists in a way of living by means of which a human...
... delivered at a colloquium in memory of Martin Heidegger that was held at Pennsylvania State University in April 1977; in a paper “Immateriality and the Play of Imagination,” read at the meeting of the ... out a way to imagination, to what at the time of composition I called the issue of imagination, thereby designating, at once, the emergence, lineage, and manifestation of imagination This way necessarily ... translation of reason as gathering, since it brings into play the character of gathering as gathering into presence, into manifestness At every level, whether the gathering be that of intuition, of...
... considered one of the creators of a sober scientific prose style He is also the originator of a multitude of technical terms that, by way of their Latin translation, have become a fixed part of philosophical ... intellectual curiosity could remind the new ethics of science of one form of justification it likes to forget, that is, of a legitimation that is independent of profit and purely internal to science ... impiety (asebeia), the same accusation that had brought about Socrates’ death Hinting at the fate of that “best, wisest and most just man among those alive at the time”(Plato, Phaidon 118a), he is said...
... Refutations Scott G Schreiber State UniversityofNewYork Press Published by State UniversityofNewYork Press, Albany â 2003 State UniversityofNewYork Printed in the United States of America ... states of affairs that are properly explanatory of some conclusion and states of affairs that only logically entail that same conclusion In this chapter I also show that Aristotle concedes that ... particular style of speech, such as that appropriate to law courts4 or that used by poets.5 It is this latter sense of a style or way of speaking that dominates Aristotles use of the word in the...
... Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Charles Shepherdson, editor $urplus Spinoza, Lacan A KIARINA KORDELA STATE UNIVERSITYOFNEWYORK PRESS Published by State UniversityofNewYork ... understanding of God’s commandment: “You may freely Surplus eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you ... explanation why Adam should not eat of the tree of knowledge is simply that “in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” Nothing in this statement indicates whether Adam should prefer to live rather...
... people seek information, what information they trust, and what meaning they draw from that information will be more powerful Regardless of whether the Newsweek article at the beginning of this chapter ... cumulative effects of small acts Much transparency occurs due to the aggregate, often unintended, acts of individuals or small organizations that spread information In an age of transparency that ... argue that “Any new channel of communication among the people and organizations of this world is likely to contribute to increased understanding and hence greater peace.”61 Advocates of international...