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...born Congregationalist A. Campbell Garnett, philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Philosophical Association, thinks that most theologians have taken to playing a kind of word game of their own that has no relevance to the needs of ordinary men. For example, Paul Tillich, America's most eminent theologian, talks of God as "Being Itself" or "Ultimate Reality"-a hard kind of God to worship, much less to love...
...positivists, who believe that philosophy is only semantics and that ethical judgments are merely emotional expressions like "Yipee!", Hook still believes in philosophy as a meaningful guide to human actions. On the other hand, he also stands apart from the recent upsurge of Christian existentialism propounded by Jaspers and Tillich. In short, amidst changing philosophical fashions, he has remained steadfast to the credo he learned, not at his mother's knee, but from his spiritual father, John Dewey-a rational humanist whose roots reach back to Enlightenment...
...older definitions of man's telos, classical humanism and religious transcendentalism, were pushed aside." Reason became a "means-ends relation," losing its "larger meaning which included the moral and esthetic function." Technique has become not merely a means to an end, but an end in itself. Asks Tillich: "Is this not surrender of a telos altogether...
Subject or Object. Tillich cites as proof of his analysis the modern world's outcry against the lack of inner aim, "the so-called existentialist art, literature and philosophy . . . expressions of emptiness, meaninglessness and life-anxiety . . . split-consciousness, indifference and disintegration...
...Tillich concludes with the hope that "the ever-increasing protest against the dehumanization of man . . . may become soon more than a protest, namely a support for a view of man which takes into consideration all dimensions of the multidimensional unity...