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...Willkie Award-a trip around the world, sponsored by Freedom House and the Common Council for American Unity. Skipping lightly over all other U.S. writers and artists, the two organizations thought Corwin's On a Note of Triumph and other writings the best "contributions [of 1945] to the concept of One World, in the field of mass communication...
Only democracy seems to offer this hope to mankind at large, the opportunity to regain their Christian concept of human dignity and worth. In this hope, Spellman proclaimed...
Conversely, the body of American jurisprudence, "the problems of the Sherman Act, for example, tie in with the issue of international cartels. Public regulation in the field of aircraft, also, immediately transcends any purely national concept...
...agnostic, Sartre took Kierkegaard's concept of tension, threw out God. "Whether God exists or not," he says, "is of no importance in our philosophy. There is no communication between Him and us." Since God is at best irrelevant, Sartre holds, man is responsible solely to himself. "You are your life and nothing else," says a figure in Sartre's play Huis Clos. The author thinks he has capsuled his philosophy in that sentence...
Actually, not Kierkegaard but German Philosopher Martin Heidegger (a Nazi from 1932-34), begot Existentialism. Heidegger's ultimately cynical subjectivism rather than the Danish prophet's Christian profundity determined Sartre's concept of man's responsibility: "Man is free to act, but he must act to be free. If he fails to choose a social or political line of action, he is not a Being; he is Nothingness." Should, by chance, Christian ethics permeate man's action, Sartre does not mind-not because it is Christian but because it is moral...