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...philosophers Jacques Maritain and Etienne Gilson had given Thomism a modern relevance. University of Chicago Philosopher Mortimer (The Great Books) Adler considered Aquinas to be one of the foremost molders of Western thought. In many Roman Catholic colleges, students got heavy doses of Thomism; later philosophical giants like Descartes, Hume and Kant were only mentioned for their errors...
...conviction that acts must be consistent with the essence of human "being." Along with Aquinas' moral philosophy, Oxford Professor Anthony Kenny cites his work in metaphysics and philosophical theology among the achievements that "entitle him to rank with Plato and Aristotle, with Descartes and Leibnitz, with Locke and Hume and Kant...
...More basically, Evangelical Philosopher Ronald H. Nash, writing in Christianity Today, takes issue with Aquinas' concept of epistemology-the nature of knowing truth. "Both Aquinas and Aristotle believed that sensory experience is the basis of all knowledge," Nash contends. Such empiricism paved the way for skeptics like David Hume, who ended up by concluding that the mind could know nothing beyond its own sense impressions. Only a philosophy that posits the presence of "innate ideas" in the mind can avoid such skepticism, argues Nash-but Thomas refused that Platonic concept...
...students insisted on mispronouncing Conroy's name)-and a profound shortage of dramatic conflict. The children, needless to say, are adorable. They are rendered all the more touching by the superintendent of an inhumane school system and an inflexible principal (the former represented by Hume Cronyn in one of his patented portrayals of the small in spirit; the latter played with a not unsympathetic strength by Madge Sinclair). Many of the children cannot spell their names; none know the name of the ocean that surrounds them. The surf regularly claims lives among them because no one-until Conroy...
...correspondents in news bureaus round the world go wires requesting and suggesting pictures. "TIME'S photographers," says Durniak, "are seeking in their subjects glances and gestures-visual facts-that add information-not decoration-to the text." For this week's cover story Pulitzer Prizewinning Photographer David Hume Kennerly shot 14 rolls of film of James St. Clair to produce the photos that appear in the magazine; one became the cover portrait...