Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Profound Cultivation...
Another student, Dickinson Miller, recalls a seminar in metaphysics with of intellectual experience, his profound cultivation in literature, in science and in art ..., his absolutely unfettered and untrammeled mind, ready to do sympathetic justice to the most unaccredited, audacious, or despised hypotheses, yet always keeping his own sense of proportion and the balance of evidence--merely to know these qualities, as we sat about the council-board, was to receive, so far as we were capable of absorbing it, in a heightened sense of the good old adjective, "liberal' education.... In private conversation he had a mastery of words...
...Apocalyptic Vision. To a latter-day Rip Van Winkle awakening from a sleep of a few years, the week's rumblings would at first have seemed quite familiar, reminiscent of earlier cold war crises. But closer examination might indicate a profound change. There was a crisis in Laos that might prove to be painful and prolonged. But missing were the verbal and psychological accompaniments of the cold war crises of the '50s: the apprehension that the scales of power might be about to tip against the West, the warnings that a climactic showdown might loom ahead...
Langer, however, called the great bubonic plague epidemic, which in two years carried off one-third to one-fourth of Europe's population, "the greatest disaster that has ever overtaken mankind." He explained that this "disaster of the first magnitude must have had profound social effects...
Philosophy could be one of the most humanistic of subjects; for it is, as traditionally conceived, the study par excellence of world views of the most profound kind, formed under varying cultural conditions and articulated to the highest degree. Traditional philosophical views have provided answers concerning a variety of issues related to general aspects of human nature and therefore relevant to every person's life: issues concerning the basis of an individual's felt obligation to others, the relations of the individual to his society, and so on. These philosophic issues, in other words, are humanistic ones. Most persons never...