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... thought is of two sorts . The first tries to apply con- trolled thought to everyday affairs . Here students should be plunged into the reasoning that surrounds them - newspaper editorials , prominent speeches , advertisements — and ...
... thought is of two sorts . The first tries to apply con- trolled thought to everyday affairs . Here students should be plunged into the reasoning that surrounds them - newspaper editorials , prominent speeches , advertisements — and ...
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... thought , we could only have come to believe because those who talk most about the comparison happen to be professionally preoccupied with thought . Actually if we were forced to choose between thought and feeling we would have to say ...
... thought , we could only have come to believe because those who talk most about the comparison happen to be professionally preoccupied with thought . Actually if we were forced to choose between thought and feeling we would have to say ...
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... thought . Light breaks on secret lots , On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain ; When logics die , The secret of the soil grows through the eye , And blood jumps in the sun . Good and evil , beauty and ugliness , every kind ...
... thought . Light breaks on secret lots , On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain ; When logics die , The secret of the soil grows through the eye , And blood jumps in the sun . Good and evil , beauty and ugliness , every kind ...
Contents
PART | 5 |
OBJECTIVITY VERSUS COMMITMENT | 30 |
FREEDOM VERSUS AUTHORITY | 59 |
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ability absolute Academic freedom accept Aldous Huxley altruism answer anthropology appreciation Arthur Compton Ashley Montagu assume basic beauty become belief cerned Chapter common concept concern confidence context conviction creative cultural relativism culture Dean Thomas democracy develop dogmatism E. G. Boring economic egoism equal Eric Fromm evaluations evidence fact faith fallibilism feeling human HUSTON SMITH ideal ideas important individual intellectual interests involves keep kind knowledge liberal education lives man's mean mind minor premise moral motivations nature neutrality never objectivist objectivity obvious one's patterns perspectives philosophy political possible precisely principle problem psychological question reality reason relativism religion religious responsibility secular secularist selfish sense significant situation social society specific spirit stand statism teachers things thinking thought tion true truth turn understanding University valid values versus whole word