Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pound's emphasis on principle marks something of a revolution in U.S. thought about the law. For many decades powerful opinion held that the law stemmed not from fundamental, rational principles but rather from the needs of the day. In the complexities of modern life it became fashionable to...
On the one hand, Soren Kierkegaard has led a return to the primitive essentials of Christianity by his re-definition of true faith as deep belief which not only is unjustified by the available evidence, but is irrelevant to all possible evidence or even runs headlong against it--belief which...
But the ruling does more than strengthen Memorial Church. It settles one of the chief points of discussion of the past few weeks and allows more constructive consideration of the general question of religion's place at Harvard. Such discussion, when rational and impersonal, clarifies issues and benefits the University...
Thomas Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, stated last night that violence over integration was a rational act.
In a meeting of the Social Relations Society, Pettigrew said that the findings of his three week field trip to Little Rock indicated that violence arose only when the possibility of definite action to prevent integration might be taken. He asserted that Governor Faubus had given the people hope that...