Kissinger's Senior Thesis

[Anonymous No.19652118]

Has anybody here read Kissinger's senior thesis that he wrote at Harvard University? This guy tried to synthesize Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant at the same time.

[Anonymous No.19652139]

sounds pseudointellectual

[Anonymous No.19652141]

>>19652139
/board

[Anonymous No.19652146]

There was some Harvard student on here who said he was going try to scan it a few years ago. Don't know if he ever did it.

[Anonymous No.19652156]

>>19652118
i read his thesis broke the harvard record for longest thesis. you have to be a real renaissance man to understand these fucks

[Anonymous No.19652162]

Here is an interesting evaluation of his thesis: https://hir.harvard.edu/kissinger-remembers/

[Anonymous No.19652290]

>>19652162
Kinda retarded ngl. I can't tell if his use of Kant's metaphysics just amounts to a poor simile and I should throw out any serious attempt to read what he's saying in respect to Kant. But considering how he does use Kant's ethics, it just seems like a not very original interpretation and not that he blatantly knows nothing about Kant.

Ignoring anything in Kant he might possibly have misunderstood.

[Anonymous No.19652620]

>>19652290
Does it need to be an "original" interpretation of his ethics? I'm more interested in the overall picture and the application to history. The whole point of learning all of these different thinkers is to discover coherent currents of thought that you can then weave together to (hopefully) understand reality a little bit more.

[Anonymous No.19652974]

>>19652620
'Not very original' means pretty bland and not of interest. To be original in thought means for the thought to be worthwhile, so the overall picture and application to history is minimal, at least as it relates to Kant.

The 'rest' (from what I got in that short summary), seems like something much more personal. Unironically like a life plan. That in itself provides something original to look over history with, but in the end not much of value compared with what's been written, or even much more original than common sense. It feels kind of pseudy.

[Anonymous No.19653160]

>>19652156
It's less impressive when you realise he was, like, 35 at the time.

[Anonymous No.19653173]

>>19652141
kek

[Anonymous No.19653760]

>>19652146
https://archive.org/details/HenryAKissingerTheMeaningOfHistoryReflectionsOnSpenglerToynbeeAndKant

[Anonymous No.19654257]

>>19653760
no fucking way

how different is it from the book kissinger published later?

[Anonymous No.19654780]

>>19654257
Which book do you mean?

As far as I know, this thesis is owned by Harvard and has not been published yet.

[Anonymous No.19655147]

didnt someone throw in on libgen a couple of years ago

[Anonymous No.19655227]

>>19655147
Yes, there was a thread where a harvardanon checked it out at the library, scanned, and uploaded it.

[Anonymous No.19655298]

>>19653760

Wow, looks kino