Word: humanisme
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Sir: My philosophy and religion class is teaching me that the principal differences between Jesus and the Jewish Pharisees was a humanism, rather than a preoccupation with "the law."
"On matters of structure," says one official of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Paul is willing to modernize. But not on matters of faith and morals." Theologically, the Pope is not a progressive thinker. He has repeatedly referred to himself as a student of Jacques Maritain...
Doing Nothing. The style of many regionalist writers generates inward pressures that condense the atmosphere of a time and place - for example, the palpable Dixie gothic of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Guimarāes Rosa's style is centrifugal. Shooting out to ignite the familiar details of the...
Cut and Faint. As the leader of his country's experiment to infuse Communism with humanism and democracy, Dubček was the symbol and hero of Czechoslovakia's will to be free. The circumstances of his arrival last week in Prague, after three days of negotiations in...
By contrast, Kenya's neighbors, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania, have governed themselves better than anyone expected. One paradoxical reason is the very profusion of East African tribes; no one tribe dominates the rest. Moreover, it is one of Africa's many ironies that tribalism can be used to create national...