{"id":1393,"date":"2011-09-03T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2013-04-02T22:04:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:04:11","slug":"kant-paris-kingbird-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/kant-paris-kingbird-1953-1393.html","title":{"rendered":"Kant, Paris, kingbird (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kant, Immanuel,<\/strong> <em>(p. 649)<\/em><br \/>\n1724-1804, German philosopher, one of the greatest figures in the history of philosophy. He lived a quiet life at K\u00f6nigsberg, becoming professor of logic and metaphysics at the university and quietly evolving a system of thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/kant\/\">influenced all succeeding<\/a> philosophers in one way or another. [&#8230;] In [his works] he set forth intricate and well-knit arguments that defy brief summary. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paris,<\/strong> <em>(p. 952)<\/em><br \/>\n[&#8230;] Intellectually and artistically, Paris led the W world in the 17th-19th cent. and in some respects retains a unique position (&#8222;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/30\/133308592\/parisunderground\">city of light<\/a>&#8222;). [&#8230;] A fishing hamlet at the time of Caesar&#8217;s conquest, ancient Lutetia Parisiorum soon grew to an important Roman town. It became (5th cent. A.D.) a cap. of the Merovingian kings but was devastated by Norse raids in the 9th cent. With the accession (987) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/987capet.asp\">Hugh Capet<\/a>, count of Paris, as king of France, Paris became the national cap. It flowered as a medieval commercial center and as the fountainhead of scholasticism but suffered severely during the Hundred Years War (English occupation 1420-36). Throughout its history, Paris displayed a rebellious and independent spirit. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>kingbird,<\/strong> <em>(p. 662)<\/em><br \/>\nNorth American flycatcher. Eastern species, also called <a href=\"http:\/\/ibc.lynxeds.com\/family\/tyrant-flycatchers-tyrannidae\">tyrant flycatcher<\/a> and bee martin, eats some bees but chiefly noxious insects. It is dark gray above, light gray and white below with a white-banded black tail and an orange crest.<\/p>\n<p><em>ex:<br \/>\nThe Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia (in 2 volumes),<br \/>\nThe Viking Press \/ Columbia University Press: New York 1953<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kant, Immanuel, (p. 649) 1724-1804, German philosopher, one of the greatest figures in the history of philosophy. He lived a quiet life at K\u00f6nigsberg, becoming professor of logic and metaphysics at the university and quietly evolving a system of thought that influenced all succeeding philosophers in one way or another. [&#8230;] In [his works] he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,37],"tags":[3,18,26,49,48,13,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}