Word: huxleyism
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Following Huxley and Paul Tillich, Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, spoke on the changes that the new technology has brought. "We have increased the sense of effectiveness in life but have not reduced the tragic in life," he declared...
...simultaneous discussion, Aldous Huxley gave a similar answer to the question, "How Has Science in the Last Century Changed Man's View of Himself?" "Falstaffs, Hotspurs, and Feebles are still with us. Changing views of human nature and the world do not alter these basic facts; they merely alter the ways in which these facts are interpreted, evaluated, and socially dealt with...
...Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. With the verve of early Huxley, the novelist asks if science is the mote in the eye of 20th century...
...myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious." The Self as deity pursued power (Faust) and pleasure (Don Juan). It achieved satiety, the rake's progress "from pain to ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what a romp they had! The bathroom was drenched with their splashings. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The logic of self-realization...
...Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. With the verve of early Huxley, the novelist asks if science is the mote in the eye of 20th century...