Word: ortega
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...mountain resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...
Schweitzer and Ortega. Both were optimistic about the status of human standards in the world today; both stood in agreement that man is good, and that, through his own efforts coupled with divine aid, he could better himself and his lot. Ortega welcomed, as normal and healthy, the doubts that now & again besiege humanity. Schweitzer felt that mankind was able, in fact dutybound, to take on fuller responsibilities...
...serve merely to hinder what harassed modern man really needs: a reinterpretation of the nature of man on the basis of new psychological and philosophical insights. I refer them not only to Freud, but to the efforts of such truly significant men as Albert Schweitzer and José Ortega y Gasset...
...going. So rapidly has the fund of scientific knowledge increased that it has become impossible for one man to comprehend all of it even in outline form. The result has been an increasing number of trained people who know their own field and little else-a type of what Ortega y Gasset calls the "learned ignoramus...
...same issue of TIME, the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset, may have explained the rise of Senator Humphrey-and many another modern politician. He assures us that the world is "suffering from a 'vertical invasion' of the masses." It has been "taken over by the commonplace mind...