Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones saw the handwriting on the wall, and the words spelled nuclear war. So choosing to march to a different drum beat, Jones' disciples followed him into the jungle. Their humanistic dream: to build a better world. But, as it turned out, the handwriting was a forgery, the drummer...
Ourselves and Our Children gives us a feminist view of the family much closer to the real world of single parents and female breadwinners than the traditional preconceptions. If this feminism seems to be merely a misnamed humanism, perhaps so; but the fact that we can now call feminism humanism...
David Herlihy, professor of History, said yesterday Gilmore gave humanism a new perspective by examining its relationship to Roman law. Gilmore was also an authority on Erasmus, Herlihy added.
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was very definitely wrong when he attacked humanism and said that Western man needed to go back to spiritualism to redeem himself." Humanist Chaplain Thomas M. Ferrick said in a speech at Phillips Brooks House last night.
Solzhenitsyn argues that the West's spiritual decline began during the Renaissance, when the currents of humanism started to give modern man a sense of autonomy from any higher forces above him. The Renaissance, he says, ended the Middle Age's complete repression of man's physical nature. "Then, however...