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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Goad Joad | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Feet to Fire | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...Jeremiah (i.e. denunciatory pessimist) is Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, M.A., since 1930 Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Birkbeck College in the University of London. Though he plays such cheerful games as tennis and hockey, Jeremiah Joad also sits long over the chessboard, writes ironical, sarcastic books. A typical Joadism: "Advertisements are ugly, partly because commercial men rarely have the sense to employ artists to design them, partly because artists, on the rare occasions when they are employed, have not the sense to design what the commercial men want." (The Babbitt Warren, p. 143; Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: GREAT BRITAIN Pacifists Pimched | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

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