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"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.
Humanism and Its Consequences
This means that the mistake must be at the root, at the very basis of human thinking in the past centuries. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was first born during the Renaissance and found its political expression from the period of the Enlightenment. It...
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...
In the East, he said, people "are becoming firmer and stronger, " while in the West they are being sapped by "today's mass living habits ... by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor and by intolerable music." His message: "No weapons ... can help the West until it overcomes...