Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Unitarians-like Spanish Physician Michael Servetus (tried by Calvin and burned for heresy in 1553) and 16th-Century spellbinder Francis David (who converted large sections of Hungary to Unitarianism)-were conspicuous for their denial of the Trinity, modern Unitarianism goes far beyond this ancient heresy. Denying the traditional Christian concept of man's innate worthlessness without God's intervention, Unitarians see man as innately good, see the cause of mankind's ills as lack of ethical intelligence. As "seekers, not believers," they bend their efforts to acquiring and applying this intelligence in bigger and more effective doses...
Germany v. Europe. "The German concept of liberty was always directed outward; it meant the right to be German, only German and nothing else and nothing beyond that. It was a concept of protest, of self-centered defense against everything that tended to limit and restrict national egotism. . . . The German idea of liberty is racial and anti-European; it is always very near the barbaric if it does not actually erupt into open and declared barbarism, as in our days...
...Foreign Policy, The Real Soviet Russia) says: nonsense. He recognizes a change in Soviet policy. But: "The new policy, far from being treacherous to Leninism, is actually the application of the principles of Leninism to an entirely new situation. . . . The old Soviet plan may be said to have embraced concepts of an extensive revolution, or rather of a series of revolutions: extensive because it was expected that all over the globe irregular, chaotic explosions would occur. . . . What Stalin has done with the old concept has not been to abolish the revolutionary program: rather he has transformed the idea...
Bishop Oxnam believes in his church's responsibility as well as its rights: "The world desperately needs a new unifying concept." Unless that concept is soon presented to a waiting world by the three great branches of the Holy Catholic Church (Protestant, Roman and Eastern Orthodox), the world, says the Bishop, will have the right to say to the church: "Physician, heal thyself...