Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many magazine articles and books on historical and political subjects have been published by Fay. His best-known book is "Origins of the World War" in which he destroys the dogma of German war guilt which was so popular after the armistice...
...condition for developing as rich and meaningful an inner life as possible? If we choose the latter alternative, we will have to be more genuinely religious and honest with our selves. He doesn't advocate a return to the Bible necessarily or any external application of dogma, but a renewal of respect for man as a receptacle of spiritual truth and a renewal of inner integrity and self-belief. The way to self-understanding in our present mess, Wylie thinks, is clear-headed criticism, a sample specimen of which he offers in this book. Sometimes his love of a fancy...
...theory that underlies a belief in liberal education seems to be that if you start people thinking freely and courageously, they will eventually arrive at the right conclusions. In a world as confused as ours is today, the only possible dogma is the dogma dictated by self-interest. But in the free exchange of ideas we can at least hope that truth will win out. It may be that the colleges are not the place for this kind of education. Certainly they are not the only place for it. There is, however, an opportunity in college to escape at least...
...failed. Throughout its existence, however, the Guardian has always been something new under the sun. It has managed to present an undergraduate viewpoint without degenerating into a Junior "Annals of the American Academy," and through it all has avoided the intellectual arthritis which follows the adoption of any sectarian dogma. There will be an even better place for such a journal when the problems of peace and readjustment are the issues...
...well. He admits quite candidly that Russia's political structure since 1919 has been illiberal by Western standards, and that Stalin's foreign policy up to June, 1941, was "extraordinarily and perversely blind." This strain of independent mental toughness, of a search for concrete solutions rather than purity of dogma; runs through the whole work. Cole is no meek follower of a pre-cooked theory...