Word: believerism
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This last sentence summarizes the dominant spirit of the College, even for the believers. Demos's method in teaching Phil. 1 reflects the divorce of believing and teaching which characterizes much of the faculty's approach. Demos admits frankly that he is "a believer," and he says furthermore, "Everybody who...
Yet Demos admittedly does not try to convert in his philosophy class. His self-described role is that of the actor, speaking for the various philosophers. For the instructor, the role of the believer yields to that of the impartial spokesman expounding the bits of wisdom and insight which each...
More than this, however, there exists a clear pervasive spirit of questioning, skepticism, tolerance--in sum, an apotheosis of relativism and tolerance. At Harvard the values of relativism are quickly transformed from means to ends, from mere method to metaphysics. They become the "practical postulates" of a University which wants...
Like a good liberal nineteenth-century freethinker, the typical Harvard non-believer doodles with arguments about an entity named God as if this merely happened to be a nondescript question that struck his fancy. Instead of being made more complacent by Hume and Freud, he needs to be jarred by...
¶ Nikita Khrushchev is a doctrinaire Communist-a true believer; whatever he sees in the U.S., he will see through Communist glasses that will magnify and/or distort according to Communist gospel; it is therefore not realistic to think that his U.S. tour will change any of his basic ideas about...