Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moore, Donald Babcock Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, described existentialism as a combination of elements from the empirical and idealist traditions. Existentialism views man both as an object in the world committed to his relationship with other objects and as an intellect estranged and withdrawn from the world...
...There is a distance between me and me," Moore said; the me which is a thing among others in the world and the me which is an impartial observer. "In so far as I am transcendent and withdrawn, my existential attitude belongs to the tradition of idealism; but at the same time, "this transcendent thing must exist, be a thing there, rooted in the world," Moore insisted...
...sense that I am withdrawn," Moore continued, "I also want to go back to the thing I am, the thing I identify myself with embrace, and care for--something concrete, active, and committed as opposed to an impersonal intellect...
...strike's first six days, the doctors and government communicated mainly by trading angry press communiques. Dr. Harold Dalgleish, president of the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons, demanded that the act "be withdrawn while doctors are still available who are not fully committed to leave Saskatchewan." But at week's end the doctors had not softened their tone, nor had Premier Lloyd. Said the premier: "This is no longer just a matter of medical care service. It is now an outright challenge to the procedures of constitutional government. If one can envisage this spreading to other groups...
...general the Class was behaving well. On March 14 Dean von Stade revealed that the lowest number in his memory--12 students or one per cent--had voluntarily withdrawn from college; and two days later the Class innocently read about Yale freshmen rioting at a St. Patrick's Day parade...