Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Things. ". . . Now the challenge has come. The churches, with a poorly equipped ministry which has more worldly wisdom than true self-knowledge and spirituality, are simply unprepared to meet the situation. Dangers and unprecedented opportunities to demonstrate the power of the Gospel, both stare in the face of the churches...
Maritain drew a sharp line between science, concerned with exploring the material world, and philosophy, or "wisdom" and the reasoned conviction, dating back to Plato, that the foundations of morality are fixed and immutable...
Said he: "The question faced by the world is quite simple: Will men be able to submit the use of science and the power of technique to wisdom...
Education is widely advertised as the force which will save the 20th Century from its own hatreds, confusions and follies. In liberal political theory, education is what gives the common man the ever increasing wisdom to govern his society. Again & again, during the M.I.T. convocation, speakers called on education to run major errands for humanity; philosophers wanted it to teach the proper attitude toward mass production, educators wanted it to do a better job of education...
...their work, are forced to employ all of their time in roaming Cambridge to beg for a pittance of flesh. Countries ago, in 1729, a similar food shortage gripped Ireland, and Joha than Swift offered a plausible and efficient solution. Unfortunately, civilization was not sufficiently advanced to recognize the wisdom of his plan...