Word: humanisme
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The title-piece consists of ten propitious chapters of the novel Wolfe was working on when he died. The Hills Beyond was to be the story of the ancestors of George Webber. In these chapters Wolfe laid out a brilliant panorama of 19th-Century Southern society, its law, war, murder...
The revolution of nihilism, which Rauschning previously treated as a German manifestation, he now calls the last tremor of the 500-year-long revolt of the masses. Formerly the ancien régime, the old order, kept the masses in check. But skeptical humanism has sapped the faith of the...
THE PROMISE OF SCIENTIFIC HUMANISM -Oliver L Reiser-Oskar Piest ($4).
Meaning & Truth. So does Oliver L. Reiser, philosophy professor at the University of Pittsburgh, who then proceeds "toward a unification of scientific, religious, social and economic thought" in The Promise of Scientific Humanism.
Maritain is pessimistic about patching up this mischief, sees no hope except in "a new temporal order inspired by Christianity." Man's basic need, he says, is a return to the "integral humanism" of Aquinas, a new philosophy of the person. Maritain's new society would be democratic...