Word: guyau
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...fighting a remarkably effective rearguard action. Nowhere is their clout more in evidence than in France. With good reason, President Francois Mitterrand fears that giving in to the U.S. will inflame the truculent farm lobby and damage his faltering Socialist Party's prospects in legislative elections next March. Luc Guyau, president of the French federation of farmers' unions, warns that the French President had better stay his course. "We will put ourselves in the front lines," he says...
...religion of the future" predicted by Religious Atheist Marie Guyau in 1886 is coming into existence. In 1957 Martin Buber told a Unitarian minister: "The old distinctions between religion and non-religion are dead. Religion has nothing to do with church attendance as such nor with doctrinal beliefs as such. These old distinctions are utterly meaningless in the present situation. Those who call themselves religious and those who call themselves nonreligious must join hands to find the first steps out of our human situation. In his readiness to do this, the agnostic or even the atheist may be more religious...
...Guyau's fame does not rest upon his constructive ability. He really had no system of philosophy. The best that can be said of him is that he adhered consistently throughout his life to a few, disconnected fundamental principles of ethics and metaphysics. He was great as a critic and as an analyzer...
...strong love of life combined with a coolness of observing our surroundings; clearness combined with an idea of the unity of things; and a cautious sense of human fallibility in philosophic speculation combined with the willingness to run the risk of blundering. The one great feature of Guyau's speculation is his fearlessness. He does not immediately fear that he may be wrong but he "lets himself go" until he has reached his conclusion...
Professor Royce then spoke of the man's character. He was frank above all things. He was a good husband and father. Troubled all his life with a malady, Guyau did not grumble as most invalids do, but was ever kind and loving. He believed that the one great tle which binds the universe together was love, and in this, as in all things, he practiced what he preached...