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Like so many people who present their credos in today's turnroil, Professor Sorokin, in a recent article in the Progressive, starts his confessio fidei with a criticism of the modern day plan of attack upon existing evils. Like any would-be reformer, he tears up the proffered plans for reorganization as inadequate. However, the importance of his criticism lies in his concentrated attack on the basic attitude of most contemporary students of society. Furthermore, while pressing the attack, he lays the framework for a new approach...
...doubt the efficacy of our idealized system of ethics and absolute values, such as justice and truth, it is not surprising to find people passing by these very same beacons of life as mirages, because empirically they have not worked. It is a pleasant surprise to find Professor Sorokin, with critical ideas far broader than anything based on empirical data, asserting himself with conviction. It is a relief to find him concluding from his refocused point of view that absolute values are as real as anything else in this world...
...next two articles, The War in Finland: A Controversy, and Professor Sorokin's "credo," Conservative Christian Anarchy, less can be said on the score of readability. The article on Finland adds nothing new to an already well-defined clash of opinion, while Mr. Sorokin's confessions will graze only the upper lobes of the undergraduate brain...
...inexhaustible. So are also man, society, and culture as a part of the reality-value. It has empirical (sensory) and super-empirical aspects; rational and irrational; logical and non-logical, material and non-material. It is a veritable coincidentia oppositorium of Johannes Scotus Erigena and Nicolaus Cusanus. --Professor Sorokin in the Harvard Progressive...
Professor Sorokin, who terms himself "the most radical professor at Harvard," described the "decline of civilization" to an audience of over 100. "No matter what the outcome of this war in Europe is," he continued, "even if all the Hitlers, Mussolinis, and Stalins are killed off, democracy will still be replaced by this powerful new force of totalitarianism...