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Chances are, however, that philosophy will learn to coexist with science and (in Mortimer Adler's phrase) reach its delayed maturity, provided it resolutely insists on being a separate discipline dealing publicly and intelligibly in first-order questions. Caution is bound to remain. Instead of one-man systems, philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

The question remains: Will philosophy ever again address the heavens? Will it contribute anything to man's vision, rather than merely clarifying it? Caution and confusion are not necessarily signs of disaster, and even Hegel remarked that "the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

His terrestrial kingdom consisted of hundreds of properties, or "heavens"-from hotels to beauty parlors to moving firms. Worth at least $10 million, they are scattered throughout the U.S. and in Austria, Australia, Sweden, West Germany, Switzerland and England. Father Divine's own abode, Woodmont, was the gift of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cults: A Deity Derepersonifitized | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

High-Priced Heavens. Skeptics dismissed the little (5 ft. 2 in.) Father as a charlatan or a simple lunatic. Yet he was an upright man, both generous and just There was not a hint of racial militancy or Black Muslim arrogance in his organization; fully 25% of his worshipers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cults: A Deity Derepersonifitized | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

On the third day up, the astronauts did the next best thing: they played a game of electronic tag. In an imaginary chase across the heavens, Cooper, in four precise maneuvers, closed the gap between the orbit of Gemini 5 and the simulated orbit of a phantom Agena rocket plotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Flight to the Finish | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

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