Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paying tribute to the mothers of America through Ethel Kennedy [April 25]. She is not alone in her struggle to bring up children to lead fruitful lives. As a teacher of young children, I am daily inspired by those mothers who are dedicated to the task of teaching moral and social values to the future citizens of our country. They may not be as spectacular as Ethel, but their number is legion. All is not yet lost in this country...
...Lasch, calls him "a person for whom thinking fulfills at once the function of work and play." Clearly, an intellectual's mind is not restricted to one discipline, but ranges widely in many areas, seeking larger patterns. No mere expert or operator, the true intellectual aims for synthesis, moral vision, a grand design...
According to Plato, a man is irresponsible not to aid society if he has the intelligence to do so. That formulation of the intellectual's responsibility has an unassailable simplicity, but the role acquires deep moral complexity when intellectuals join big organizations such as government. The very political activism that so cheered intellectuals in the first days of the New Frontier is now widely regarded as corruption and betrayal. Under John Kennedy and on into the Johnson Administration, the intellectual seemed ubiquitous -moving back and forth among the universities, government, business and industry. Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer...
...antithesis of Cardinal Newman's 19th century idea of the university as a seeker of wholeness. Many intellectuals are also dismayed by the style of much intellectual thought today: the narrow pragmatism of the physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work on such small segments of an overall project that they feel no ethical responsibility for the result-a minor concern if the goal is a cancer cure, for example, but a major one if they work on pesticides...
...moral myopia which allows a few drops of blood, shed in legitimate police action, to overshadow the violent seizure of private property places the entire community at the mercy of any extremist group. Furthermore, it alienates the University's friends and contributors. Finally, it's just plain stupid...