Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaiser will receive a first prize of $100 for an entitled, "Marsyas Redivivus: An Essay on the Humanist Concept of the Poet...
...more interested in communicating the worth of medieval man-his feeling for spirituality, his sense of social commu nity, his universal values-to his descend ants in modern Europe. For one thing, the medieval "world of Christian culture" is more akin to the present than the humanist traditions that have governed Europe since the Renaissance...
...contrary, Bishop Lilje argues, Luther was above all a religious man, whose break with Catholicism was incidental to his own spiritual struggle. Luther was not a humanist, and he thought most Renaissance discoveries unnecessary because they were part of a "worldly" order. Says Bishop Lilje: "The Reformation gave the scholar independence from the hierarchy for his studies, but it never intended to release scholarship from it's ties to God and the God-given order." The reformers, just as the medieval scholastics, believed that "all scholarship is related to the supernatural...
Your two articles on the "Knights of the Church" and "Humanists, 1952" in the Sept.1 issue seem to indicate that because the former director general of UNESCO, Julian Huxley, is an ardent humanist (as defined in your article), UNESCO is following in its activities principles which are contrary to Catholic moral theology (e.g., birth control). May I point out, as a Catholic member of UNESCO, that Dr. Huxley, while director general of the organization, carefully avoided mixing his personal views-which he always freely professed-with the official programme and gave a shining example of objectivity, tolerance and fair play...
Anarchic Humanism. Bernard Sands, it turns out, is a homosexual and almost proud of it. Though his deviation has come as a late discovery, it suits his Gide-like view of himself as an "anarchic humanist." Living by the code that "happiness should be respected in any guise," he has little use for conventional notions of good & evil. Yet compared with the moral termites around him, he seems a fair sort...