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It is decidedly inaccurate to refer to Unitarianism as "a sort of vague Christianity without Christ." Although its early historical roots were in the Judaeo-Christian heritage, Unitarian religious philosophy has increasingly become a process of the rational-ethical-universal-mystical, and especially of the humanistic. These many tentacles represent...
What is so depressing the market? The biggest reason for the long price stagnation is probably psychological. In the mid-'60s, people widely-and wrongly-believed that Keynesian economics had given governments the tools to control inflation and recession and keep business rising constantly. Recalls Arnold Bernhard, president of...
Sociobiology may apply to ants, but your article reveals it as just another pop simplification when it is extended to people. Rational theories of human behavior have to be flexible enough to account for both a Stevie Wonder, able to triumph over being blind as well as black, and a...
Some philosophers and theologians have been dismayed by the theory. So was one young man who had won a Carnegie Gold Medal for saving a drowning victim; he wrote Wilson a troubled letter. Recalls Wilson: "He found it difficult to grasp the notion that somehow his act was preordained through...
Anti-lntellectualism. Though steeped in the 19th century, Douglas takes an important part of her text from Richard Hofstadter's Anti-lntellectualism in American Life (1963). In the heavy, bunkered prose of the embattled intellectual, the historian wrote that "to the extent that it becomes accepted in any culture...