Word: joads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
Last week Philosopher Joad joined several other philosophers, sociologists, politicians and job-lot thinkers in proposing that somebody stop science. Though typically visionary, the Joad proposal was specific: let a board of wise men be created with powers to grant or refuse permits on inventions which affect human living...
RETURN TO PHILOSOPHY - C. E. M. Joad- Dutton ($2.50). A University of London professor does his burly British bit to disabuse amateur philosophers of the notion that there are two sides to a question. Good reading for Tories. WHERE LIFE IS BETTER - James Rorty - John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Report of "An unsentimental American journey" across the U. S., an attack on optimistic illusions. Title: satiric. STONEWALL JACKSON- G. F. R. Henderson, C. B. - Longmans, Green ($5). Reprint of the famed standard biography long used as a text in the British War College and at West Point...
Another dignitary who was on hand was Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of University of London, onetime John Locke Scholar at Oxford, famed moral philosopher (Common Sense Ethics, Common Sense Theology, Mind and Matter, etc.). When newshawks asked him what he thought about the firewalking, Philosopher Joad said he was not prepared to make any observations for less than five guineas...
UNDER THE FIFTH RIB-C. E. M. Joad-Dutton ($3.75). Autobiography of a belligerent British professor...