Word: humanisme
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Charles Malik, professor of Philosophy at the American University at Beirut and former President of the United Nations General Assembly, concluded the Tuesday night program. In calling for a new universal humanism, he stressed the responsibility of American educational institutions here and abroad to give "a leisurely taste of the...
Theology is based, Huxley writes, on "a combination of an elaborate god-theory with a subsidiary but equally elaborate soul-theory," and is limited in applicability and the power of self-correction. Humanism, on the other hand, "is acquiring a well-organized theoretical basis in the form of a comprehensive...
Second Thoughts. While his views on Earth are unchanged. Niebuhr has revised his opinions on two major 20th century intellectual forces: ¶ SECULARISM. Niebuhr regrets some of his earlier polemics against it. now feels that Christianity "must make common ground with the different kinds of secular humanism to protect the...
Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of the Catholic University of Villanueva, has been speaking out against the Red threat for a year. But a Havana priest named Moisés Arrechea recently went on television to say that the "humanism" which Castro espouses is "the work of God himself." Last...
Harvard's chair honors more: an anti-sentimentalist philosopher whose national fame rose and fell in a few brief years (circa 1930). In that essentially sentimental era, Babbitt's "new humanism" so riled both liberals and conservatives that nobody really listened. What Babbitt proposed, in his prickly prose...