Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denzil K. Freeth, opening the British argument "that it would have been better for mankind if the American revolutionaries had stopped short of separation," said in his serious moments that Hitler would not have started World War II if the U.S. had not been a "semi-isolationist, independent" power that the Axis couud count...
...Sigmund Freud studied the Oedipus myth and came to a shocking conclusion: Oedipus, like most sons, was in love with his mother, and, as many a son would like to do, killed his father to get her. The Oedipus complex, said Freud, is an all-too-common ailment of mankind-"the essential part in the content of neuroses...
...still create such beauty. But these days you can't go around stroking people's heads lest your hand be bitten off. You have to smash them over the head-smash them without mercy-even though in theory we are against every form of oppression of mankind . . . ours is a hellish task...
...thing is sure; never in the history of mankind has a man been presented with such vital responsibility, nor such a great opportunity to go down in history as Man of the Century...
...them to act grandly. "Man has no nature," he once wrote. "He has a history." That history changed each moment, each moment bringing new decisions. It was an eternal "dialogue between man and his circumstances." To know those circumstances was the job of the philosopher; to act by them, mankind...