Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lamont goes on to deny that an Oedipal complex, arising from hate of a father who hobnobbed with J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill, was "operative" in his decision to become a socialist, Humanist, civil libertarian and world pacifist. True to form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont...
In fact, Corliss Lamont has taken such admirable stances for half a century it is hard to be rough with him. A biography might have established the distance needed between the man and his actions to evaluate his philosophical and ideological stances. Yet one does wonder whether such a work...
The questions still stand after finishing Voice in the Wilderness. Perhaps Lamont's chronicling of his quiet, underexposed work for humanism, civil liberties and socialism is a desperate attempt for recognition from a retired fellow-traveler standing a half-skip, jump or foot away from the grave. Lamont wrote obsessively...
Ramsey, a Methodist, cites St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans in supporting the traditional Christian view that death entered the world as "the wages of sin" -the punishment for Adam's fall.* Ever since, Ramsey insists, death has been "the enemy." Jesus' death on the cross...
The Cambodian government and people love peace and have always wanted to live quietly. They would like to deal as friends and equals with all the peoples of the world. They believe in Buddhism, a religion fortified with pacifism and humanism, and they neither menace nor threaten anyone. But they...