Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...define the moral problem and to speculate on a solution was the purpose of M.I.T.'s panel on "Science, Materialism and the Human Spirit." Gentle Jacques Maritain, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, was not confused about his convictions on the subject. Twentieth Century Man, he said, is becoming "unable to believe anything but facts & figures and sense-data." Maritain found the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man and things. He blamed not science itself for the 20th Century's moral crisis, but two factors bearing...
Purchased Flowers. Significantly, M.I.T.'s panel on this subject was called "Specialization in 20th Century Education." So complex has 20th Century technology grown that it requires an increasing number of specially trained men to keep it 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...
...sort of memorial," he plans to do his next play about his mother, who died recently. His friends supposed that here, finally, was a subject that would need no research. But Kingsley is running true to form: "My mother was a very proud and mysterious person. There's a lot I don't know about her. I'm going to have to do a little detective work...
...week starting Friday, April 1. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
...time has come, the Pope said last week, for a return to an old sermon subject: hell fire & damnation...