Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Intellect suffered a like fate in politics. The Founding Fathers combined intellect with power. But when John Quincy Adams was trounced by Andrew Jackson for the presidency, the rule of the intellectuals was over, and for the rest of the 19th century intellectuals and politicians went their separate ways, the intellectuals despising the politicians for their ignorance, the politicians taunting the intellectuals for being effete and impractical...
Dangerous Time. It took Theodore Roosevelt, whose virility was beyond question, to restore intellect to politics. He called upon intellectuals for help, and there began an intellectual invasion of government that culminated in the New Deal. The 1950s' reaction against the intellectuals was not so serious as intellectuals supposed. They interpreted...
...challenge and adventure that confronts the Houses system is not consolidating its stature as a community of scholarly young men, but expanding the notions of intellect and the community of mind. The popularity of the Freshman Seminars among undergraduates should be an adequate index of the case with which Harvard can market the scholarly enterprise to its students, but this is the easiest of the College's tasks. In the last three-decades, the Houses have matured sufficiently to take the next step...
...perfected Being with all its otherness soaked up into itself, which dominates his whole philosophy, must have come from the prominence in his consciousness of mystical moods. . .? The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling." The bizarre consequences of the Hegelian system when applied to brute Anglo-American "facts" tend to vanish in the realm of pure sensation. Hegel really "makes sense" in this pre-rational area; his work appears expressly designed for dealing with pure experience...
...make saints infallible. When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticisms or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world. By the very intensity of his fidelity to the paltry ideals with which an inferior intellect may inspire him, a saint can be even more objectionable and damnable than a superficial carnal man would be in the same situation. We must judge him not sentimentally only, and not in isolation, but using our own intellectual standards, placing him in his environment, and estimating his total function...