Word: humanisme
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This is the agin' book of the season. Robert Elliot Fitch, Dean of California's Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and...
Green Henry, Keller's hero, was born in a small Swiss town in the 1820s; his mother is the educated daughter of a pastor, and his father is a peasant who, through great ability and energy, has become a master builder. The father is the embodiment of the century...
(6 of 10) conception of natural law as merely "the drive of the whole personality," the striving to "live ever more fully." Calling itself "modern evolutionary scientific humanism," it regards human values such as reason, justice and charity as man-made and human rights as dependent on man for their...
Spilt Religion. Soon tiring of poetry, Hulme launched a Tuesday night salon at the home of his mistress, where he propounded to "journalists, painters, Irish yaps, American bums" the ideas that would later be posthumously published under the apt title, Speculations. Every civilization, Hulme held, was based on certain assumptions...
Humanism thus has been limited by national boundaries, although supposed to be international in scope, Jones commented. An "antimony of our age" results, since science (supposedly limited by a nation's borders) has become an "endless frontier" transcending these boundaries. Humanism, on the other hand, has been increasingly restricted within...