Word: empiricists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Favorable Moment. How much has Ho been an international Communist revolutionary? How much has he been a patriot using the revolution as a handy tool? Obviously he has been both. Lacouture examines both sides of the case and settles for calling him an "ingenious empiricist," a "highly unusual practitioner of Marxism," a master strategist of the "favorable moment." But there is not much doubt that the autonomy of Viet Nam has been the one uncompromising goal of Ho's long, tenacious career...
Ultimately, he declares, good religious beliefs must be determined by the empiricist criterion. "By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots." "Their value can only be ascertained by spiritual judgments directly passed upon them, judgments based on our own immediate feeling primarily; and secondarily on what we can ascertain of their experiential relations to our moral needs and to the rest of what we hold as true...