Word: humanisme
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Harvard's .benign, bemused Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 70, world-renowned interpreter of ancient Greek humanism, one of the first scholars to bear Harvard's exalted University Professor title. At nine, German-born Classicist Jaeger fascinatedly read his first Latin grammar straight through, at 25 took over the University...
George Washington University's Dr. Winfred Overholser, 67, one of the nation's top professors of psychiatry, best known as superintendent of Washington's famed St. Elizabeths Hospital. Overholser's first interest was economics. A witty New Englander (Worcester, Mass.), he went to Harvard Business School...
Hellenism, by Arnold J. Toynbee. The historian finds lessons for the present in ancient Greece's humanism and worship of city-states, both of which he deplores.
To Toynbee, an astronomer of the past who views history as a multitude of ever-turning cultural constellations, the rise and fall of Greco-Roman civilization is merely an episode lasting roughly from 1000 B.C. to 600 A.D. Toynbee traces the course of Hellenism's bright star lucidly, a...
The political embodiment of Greek humanism was the city-state, which provided order instead of anarchy, freed the individual from the frenzied worship of nature gods, and destroyed the rigid cult of the family, including the blood feud. The major demerit was that the Hellenes soon "took to worshipping their...