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...about it, and Wilson himself was not involved. But many Britons found it unseemly TOPIX that the charge of land speculation should be raised against intimate colleagues of a man who a few weeks ago was denouncing it as "the biggest single scandal, the ugliest of the faces of present-day capitalism...
Novak and other admirers cite Thomas' present-day usefulness in varying ways. A number of prominent ethicists, for example, find considerable relevance in such concepts as his understanding of moral habits and his conviction that acts must be consistent with the essence of human "being." Along with Aquinas' moral philosophy, Oxford Professor Anthony Kenny cites his work in metaphysics and philosophical theology among the achievements that "entitle him to rank with Plato and Aristotle, with Descartes and Leibnitz, with Locke and Hume and Kant...
...most of the present-day prophets disappoint Thompson. Architect Paolo Soleri, with his beehive city projects aimed at accommodating architecture with ecology, and Educator Ivan Illich, with his hope of "deschooling" society, turn out to be looking backward. Reacting to a world too full of growth, they strive to return to simpler, medieval values. (Nevertheless, both Illich and Soleri represent something Thompson admires: the achievement of authority unaccompanied by institutional power.) The Club of Rome, on the other hand, looks forward to a world of no growth. But Thompson dismisses its recommendations too because he distrusts rule by any "technocratic...
...Definitely not, answers Professor Stephan Thernstrom in his most recent book, The Other Bostonians. America has always been an extremely fluid society, even including its non-growing Eastern cities such as Boston. While 19th century transients may on the whole have been lower on the social ladder than their present-day counterparts, they were at least as numerous...
Dash said he thought that "in the end the basic health of the system will allow it to recover. However, in order to escape this present-day Sodom and Gomorrah we must adopt new concepts of morality based upon integrity and justice...