The Intellectual Life
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ISBN13: 9780217801720
Paperback|9780217801720
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER in TO A STUDENT IN UNCERTAIN HEALTH Habits of Kant, the philosopher ? Objection to an over-minute regularity of habit?Value of independence of character ? Case of an English author ? Case of an English resident in Paris ? Scott an abundant eater and drinker ? Goethe also ? An eminent French publisher ? Turgot ? Importance of good cookery ? Wine drinking ? Ale ? The aid of stimulants treacherous ? The various effects of tobacco ? Tea and coffee ? Case of an English clergyman ? Balzac ? The Arabian custom of coffee-drinking ? Wisdom of occasionally using stimulants. Immanuel Kant, who was a master in the art of taking care of himself, had by practice acquired a dexterous mode of folding himself up in the bed-clothes, by passing them over and under his shoulders, so that, when the operation was complete, he was shut up like the silkworm in his cocoon. When I am thus snugly folded up in my bed, he would say to his friends, I say to myself, can any man be in better health than I am ? There is nothing in the lives of philosophers more satisfactory than this little passage. If Kant had said to himself, Can anybody be wiser, more learned, more justly deserving of immortal fame than I am ? we should have felt, that however agreeable this opinion might have been to the philosopher who held it, his private satisfaction stood in need of confirmation'from without; and even if he had really been all this, we might have reflected that wisdom and learning still leave their possessor exposed to the acutest kinds of suffering. But when a philosopher rolls himself up at night, and congratulates himself on the possession ofperfect health, we only think what a happy man he was to possess that first of blessings, and what a sensible man to know the value of it And Kant had a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217801720 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217801722 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.68 In |
| List Price | $22.07 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 304 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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