Word: humanisme
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"YOUTH," Leon Kirchner suggested in his remarkable introduction of Roger Sessions earlier this year, "has turned to the fountainhead of humanism only to find it constricted by mechanism." He was referring to the problem of the composer's relation to his art in a world transmogrified by mass media, as...
For more than a hundred years now, what might be called industrial humanism, the dream of total progress through production and distribution, has held general credence in Western civilization. Science, industry, and a morality of shared materialism were linked in a powerful secular religion of consensus.
The dispute creates a serious split in the M.L.A. Either the non-radicals will manage to end what they consider the dissidents' "subversion" or many of them will quit. The dissidents insist that it is not their aim to take over the association or drive its members out. All...
Predictably, the process is not easy. Besides the individual's own natural shiftiness, Rubinoff argues, one of the great intellectual stumbling blocks to such self-knowledge is liberal humanism, a near-religion that obscures the truth about human nature by assuming that evil is to be found not in...
I am a Methodist with little personal knowledge of Catholicism. However, it would appear that papal pronouncements are as confining and deadly as the Pharisees'. Is the Catholic Church that says it is the direct line from Jesus going to renounce his humanism for the system of legalism that...