Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with more than a lifetime's travel and experience, which can harden the warmest humanist, Siegfried still maintains an optimistic outlook. Opposed to Toynbee, he does not believe in the inevitable clash of the Western and Communist camps. "Technology," asserts Siegfried, "will be the binding force of the future." Democracy and Communism are certainly at appearance incompatible; but technology, claims the professor, is universal, and the leaders of the world must learn to stand together, or they will fall together on this common ground...
...Wisdom can achieve a hybrid vigor by crossing the scientist and the humanist through a more extensive and intensive interaction within the faculty," he suggested. "Why should not the professor of physics to expected to refresh himself every seven years with a sabbatical by taking a course in aesthetics or comparative literature or in the Greek drama?" he asked...
...been a religious man in search of a religion. The search has carried him wherever men's souls were tried in war, wherever men's souls were expressed in art. He calls it the search for "the honor of being a man." Always he poses the humanist's anguished question: What is to be done with a soul, if there is neither God nor Christ...
...alliance with De Gaulle was more natural than might appear. Both men-the devout Catholic De Gaulle, the devout humanist Malraux-were deeply conscious of the need for a new mission for France; both were deeply disillusioned by the powerlessness of the French parliamentarianism which had supinely handed over power to a Pétain, and was now supine before the challenge of liberation. While De Gaulle brooded in the background, Malraux was the most eloquent voice of the Gaullist R.P.F...
...Somewhere-Elsers: Those who, despite their humanist indoctrination, cannot help thinking that, although there can be no 'heaven' for them to be in, their dead exist somehow-else, somewhere-else...