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...quote from such conservative philosophers as Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk-but he sounds uneasy when he does so, and he is often a disappointment to groups who come expecting to hear a conservative egghead. Goldwater himself is the first to confess that he is not a profound political thinker. "I'm not a philosopher," he says. "I'm a salesman trying to sell the conservative view of government...
...very statement of such is contrary to precise that spirit of Camus' that this illustrates so well. In writings, there is no split the man as philosopher as political being: the values art inform the values of his and of his life. In perhaps modern thinker are the timely the timeless fused so tightly. reading of, for example, The will show, metaphysical and rebellion are one; Camus artist, the commentator...
...reflective thinker the inarticulateness of the practical man often makes him seem a strange combination of the wizard and yokel, Brand Blanshard maintained last night at the fifth annual Alfred North Whitehead Lecture...
According to Whitehead, human thought can be divided into the reason of Plato and the reason of Ulysses. The platonic thinker is a spectator all of the time, "a spinner of mathematical webs." Men of the Ulysses genre, on the other hand, possess the "wisdom of foxes...
...annual meeting of Chicago's Economic Club, Right-Thinker Eddie Rickenbacker, 70, the U.S.'s World War I ace of aces, now Eastern Air Lines board chairman, stood up and fired toward the left: "American liberalism is driving us into slavery and, with us, everyone else in the world-for the death of liberty here will be the death of liberty around the world and the beginning of complete Communist tyranny for centuries. But now, thank God, the wind has shifted. Conservatives are rising up across the land, finding new strength in their old convictions, making their voices...