Monthly Archives: May 2016
Comments on ‘Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason’
Posted on May 14, 2016 Leave a Comment
In Religion Within The Boundaries of Mere Reason Kant puts forth the idea that for someone to be moral they must come to this decision on their own as totally free individuals and be moral for moralities sake alone. They cannot decide to be moral because they want to make other people happy, rather they […]
The Strange Fate of Eben Byers
Posted on May 4, 2016 Leave a Comment
Fall Guy In November 1927, a wealthy industrialist named Eben Byers was returning from the annual Harvard-Yale football game aboard a special chartered train. Yale won the game 14-0, and Byers was a Yale alumnus. It’s not clear whether the celebratory atmosphere aboard the train (or Byers’s reputation as a ladies’ man) had anything to […]