The feeling that the top of your head has been taken off, a definition of what makes a quote quotable that Shapiro takes from Emily Dickinson (who took it, basically, from Kant and Burke, who took it from Longinus a nice example of the sociology of quotation), is a feeling that readers of poetry expect from every poem they read.

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Studying philosophy at the University of Chicago, and reading voraciously from Plato to Kant to H.

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Despite the wealth of foreign investment in India, Kant also notes that the drive for change is coming from within the country.

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Glimpses of leading thinkers and the human values they argued for include Immanuel Kant (moral and intellectual autonomy), Benjamin Constant (protection from arbitrary power) and John Stuart Mill (promotion of human individuality).

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