Word: humanisme
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Mr. Gordon Milde, to take but one melancholy example, has written a tiring, adolescent, bogus-religious, pre-New Yorkerish (one could enumerate further) bit of fiction; Mr. Roger Hagen, to take but one other, has written a tortuous, jargon-ridden assay on "new radical humanism"--his confusion is endemic.
Beyond All Isms. A heavy interplay of curious coincidences and a shallow depiction of character place this book with Silone 's frailer fiction. However, the fact that the main sacrificial act in the novel is performed by a Fascist is significant as well as startling. It marks how much...
On the other hand, Caligula's argument, that "one is always free at the expense of others," is so convincingly developed that the play cannot prove it wrong. Camus helps defeat his own cause by denying his exponents of humanism the articulate passion that he grants Caligula. Scipio and Cherea...
The Renaissance and Reformation gave man a new telos-"the active subjugation and transformation of nature and man." This was the combination of Renaissance humanism, oriented politically and technically, with the Calvinistic and Evangelical aim to subject the "world and mankind to the kingdom of God."
On this new ground, science took root and flowered. "The two older definitions of man's telos, classical humanism and religious transcendentalism, were pushed aside." Reason became a "means-ends relation," losing its "larger meaning which included the moral and esthetic function." Technique has become not merely a means...