Word: intuitionism
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His versatility takes other forms too. He dances, has written hit songs (Splish Splash), plays the vibraphone, drums and guitar, and offers between-numbers commentary that is sometimes blue and often corny. His promoters at the Hollywood pressagent firm of Rogers & Cowan lavishly plug his innate sex appeal and his...
In an advanced industrial society, however democratic, a "handful of men in secret" make the choices that "determine in the crudest sense whether we live or die." So argued English Novelist Sir Charles Percy Snow last week as he delivered Harvard University's prestigious Godkin Lectures on public affairs...
Intuition v. Reason. In Japan, Koestler observed, the techniques of Zen "show remarkable psychological insight and produce some equally remarkable results." But the results are far from remarkable when Zen is exported overseas and seeded among Western intellectuals with an entirely different cultural background. "They tried hard to obey its...
Koestler has no patience with the self-deprecating habit of contrasting a contemplative, spiritual East with a crass, materialistic West. The difference, he says, is not between spirituality and materialism but between Western philosophy-love of wisdom-and Eastern "philousia" (from the Greek word ousia, meaning essential Being), which "prefers...
event once again brought to the surface a fact of Japanese political culture. The ambiguities of the Japanese language often led to a heavy reliance on raw symbols and intuitive expressions than on an attempt at clear articulation . This has given culture an excessicely quality but has exalted direct acts...