Word: humanistic
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Died. Robert Maclver, 88, sociologist and author, onetime president (1956-61) of Manhattan's New School for Social Research; in Manhattan. Maclver rose to fame in the 1920s as a humanist in an age of behaviorists. In his numerous books analyzing U.S. democracy (The Ramparts We Guard, Leviathan and the People, Power Transformed), he insisted that in sociology the search for meaning should be paramount...
...Humanist psychologist, formerly president of the American Psychological Association, who died last week (see MILESTONES...
Olpf Palme (Kenyon '48), L.H.D., the Prime Minister of Sweden. Educator, humanist, Prime Minister and peace weaver between men and between nations (see THE NATION...
...hope, quoting the German theologian Jiirgen Moltmann's The Theology of Hope. If the present looks grim, well, maybe−just maybe−there's the future. He settles for the progressive slogan, "Say no to the given and yes to the new." He gambles, as a humanist, that if runaway technology can be slowed down, it will somehow come out evolution rather than revolution...
...poetry inculcates a certain kind of humanism and concern with life that is necessary for a "good" revolutionary. But the peculiar kind of humanism we have inherited in the West has remained healthy while Africans were taken to Europe and then to America as slaves, and while the great humanist nations proceeded to subjugate and exploit the rest of the world. That humanism remained intact while the world suffered. Most of Western poetry does not just extoll abstract values, but pretends that they are incarnated in their respective societies. That poetry does not help...