Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for thanks be chosen on a higher spiritual level before being put into the form of a Litany? And why must democracy and freedom always be equated with the ends of civilization and man? This can only be so in a pagan society. For the Christian religion, upon which Western civilization is, after all, based, these concepts must forever be means and not ends...
...called religion a "mode of communication with some Being higher than man" and felt it was important because it "illuminated truth" and gave man a sense of humility and permanent love...
Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy, interpreted the value and nature of religion from the respective points of view of humanism and realism last night before a crowd of nearly 300 at the Adams House Forum...
...Religion," he said, "is not primarily a matter of beliefs but a blend of aesthetic and moral attitudes." His opponent claimed that these "attitudes" could not exist without beliefs...
Speaking on "Humanism, Realism, and Religion," the professors will examine humanism and realism as approaches to religious truth. Wild will take the position that there is a possibility of revealed religious truths, and Aiken will probably say that all knowledge is based on direct human experience, according to Forum Chairman Raymond E. Zelder...