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...introduction to European philosophy, it puts too much emphasis on six great men--Plato, Aristotle, or Marcus Aurelius in the ancient world, Thomas Aquinas in the medieval, and Bacon, Schophenhauer, or Hegel in the modern, to name but a handful of brilliant minds outside the scope of the course. With too much time devoted to men of the past, there is no room for anything beyond Kant, with the result that the student gets the idea that philosophy ends at the opening of the nineteenth century. He knows nothing of Spencer or Nietzche or of contemporary schools...
...STREET OF THE SANDALMAK-ERS - Nis Petersen - Macmillan ($2.50). Tale of Rome in Marcus Aurelius...
...today. In making this comparison Professor Becker suggests a whole philosophy of history. "Are we to suppose that the Russian Revolution of the twentieth century, like the French Revolution of the eighteenth, is but another stage in the progress of mankind toward perfection? Or should we think, with Marcus Aurelius, that the man of forty years if he have a grain of sense, . . . has been all that has been and shall be'?" Professor Becker refuses to commit himself explicitly, but he is obviously inclined to agree with the Roman Emperor...
...name of the authors run a large gamut, one near to the game declared. In one lecture Byron, Wordsworth. Wackenroder, Hazlitt, Novalis, Chateaubriand, Herder, Rousseau, Goe-the and Voltaire clashed with St. Augustine, Confucius, Aristotle, St. Paul, Socrates, Dante, Plato and Marcus Aurelius, Sandwiched in between were Walter Lippman, Barry Elmer Barnes, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Picasso and John Livingston Lowes...
...hushed solitude of a radio broadcasting studio at Springfield to appeal for the election of his old friend, William Morgan Butler, Republican nominee for the Senate. Equally in character, Citizen Smith chose the raucous, turbulent, packed-to-the-doors Boston Arena to plead for the election of Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, the Democratic nominee...