Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made to square with many pre-existing bodies of thought," says Behavior Writer John Leo. "After all, sociobiologists are simply saying there are built-in limits to what man can do. It's the flip side of the liberal view that believes we can make people better simply by improving their environment." After days given to pondering sociobiological research and theories with Reporter-Researcher Gaye Mclntosh, Leo observes: "Spend enough time with it and you'll be looking at your own behavior the way Konrad Lorenz looks at geese...
...policies. Said he: "If these comments are based on a misconception of our motives, we will redouble our efforts to make them clear, but if they are merely designed as propaganda to put pressure on us, let no one doubt that we will persevere." Soviet leaders erred if they thought his Administration's "concern for human rights" was "aimed specifically at them." Rather, he repeated, his policy applied "not to any particular people or area of the world, but to all countries equally, including our own." And, he added, "it is specifically not designed to heat up the arms...
...group actually donned robes to get into the spirit of academe.) He relishes dismissing most of philosophy since Thomas Aquinas as being snarled with pseudo problems. Modern philosophy, claims Adler, got off to "a very bad start" when Descartes and Locke committed the "besetting sin of modern thought": they ignored Aristotle...
Many contemporary philosophers would disagree, and that is largely why, as Adler says, "the Establishment for the most part has ignored me." Yet Adler has never needed their imprimatur for priming non-philosophers with the complicated ideas of Western thought and watching them love it. Says he: "Philosophy is everybody's business...
Striking predominantly women in their childbearing years, lupus erythematosus ("red wolf disease") was given its bizarre name by 19th century doctors who thought that its characteristic reddish rash resembled a wolfs bite. Now physicians know that discolored skin is only one symptom of a far more pervasive ailment. Like rheumatoid arthritis, SLE is one of the so-called autoimmune diseases, caused by the body literally waging war on itself...