Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peirce had received rigorous training in logic and mathematics from his father, the mathematician Benjamin Peirce. Like John Stuart Mill, he emerged from the strict regimen of paternal instruction years ahead of his contemporaries in intellectual development. Yet despite his acknowledged power and originally as a thinker, Peirce never cultivated sufficient tact or domesticity to appeal to Harvard under Eliot...
...student said that, despite the lack of organization, the course was "one of the best I ever had because it brought me into contact with a fertile mind while doing its own thinking, and gave me the stimulus and inspiration of direct contact with a frank, outspoken, honest thinker and charming personality...
...many problems he envisions in world civilization. He hasn't time. Instead, he wriggles around stumbling blocks most of his readers would prefer to see confronted. He is notoriously relaxed about not defining his terms; he relies heavily on the Artful Equivocation and the prestige of the thinker he is discussing to make many of his more doubtful points...
...Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, the students and faculty are caught up in a long-running debate on the value of West Germany's Rudolf Bultmann and his "demythologizing" of the Gospels. Another thinker in vogue is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian of Christian ethics who was killed by the Nazis in 1945. Recently at Cambridge Episcopal, five students asked the faculty to organize a special course on Bonhoeffer. Students also get absorbed in ecumenicism. Episcopal has a seminar comparing recent Anglican and Roman Catholic theology, and students from Union and the Catholic Maryknoll Fathers' seminary at Ossining...
...soft-thinker. An appeaser. A Munich-seeker. A dove. A better-red-than-deader. An ill-concealed unilateralist...