Word: dialectician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foremost chronicler of this new Wandering Jew-this spiritually displaced person-Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 1966. An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact. But he has the cumulative aftereffect and the stubbornly expanding grip on common experience that measure a substantial talent...
...DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES, by Mortimer J. Adler. The well-known philosopher and dialectician cogently defends man's unique nature against the encroachment of manlike machines...
...DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES, by Mortimer J. Adler. The well-known philosopher and dialectician cogently defends man's unique nature against the encroachment of manlike machines...
...DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES, by Mortimer J. Adler. The American philosopher and dialectician defends man's unique nature against the encroachment of manlike machines...
Mortimer Adler, the philosopher and dialectician who heads Chicago's Institute for Philosophical Research, argues that the matter is far from merely academic. If man is not basically different from the animals, that would undermine "those who now oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that all human beings, being equal in their humanity, should be treated equally." Inferior types might be looked upon as man now looks on inferior animals. A large measure of truth could be read into one of Hitler's Nürnberg decrees that held "there is a greater difference between the lowest...