The Humanity of Man van Professor of Philosophy
Ralph Barton Perry (Haravard)is een ondergewaardeerd boek van 1956 uitgegeven bij
George Braziller, Inc te New York
Preface
CHAPTER I. THE CULT OF HUMANISM 3
1. What is humanism?
2. The false antithesis to physical science
3. The false antithesis to technology and progress
4. The false antithesis to morality
5. Humanism and other philosophies
CHAPTER II. A DEFINITION OF THE HUMANITIES 24
i. Freedom and human dignity
z. Essence of humanism : historical analysis
3, Accidental characteristics of humanism
4. The humanities in modern education
CHAPTER III. ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM 70
1. Intellect and emotion in human nature
2. Sins of intellectualism
3. Faults of emotionalism
4. Motives of anti-intellectualism
5. Intellect and emotion in the humanist ideal
Vf CONTENTS
6. Intellect and emotion In common sense, art, science,
law and world peace
CHAPTER IV, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FREE? IOI
1. Vogue of the word "free"
2. Basic definition of freedom
3. The enemies of freedom
4. Moral freedom
5. Agreement
6. World-wide freedom
7. War and peace
8. The individual seat of freedom
CHAPTER V, THE VITAL FREEDOM 1 27
1. What is the good of intellectual freedom?
2. The benefits of democratic citizenship, cultural creativity
and social healthy-mindedness
3. The inquisitorial neurosis
4. The duty to think and communicate
CHAPTER VI. HOPE FOR IMMORTALITY 148
1. The desire for future life
2. The value of human personality
3. Death: its good and evil aspects
4. The belief in immortality
Toch even de teneur uit zijn woord vooraf:
...Man needs all of his sources of light. The tragedy of his intellectual history lies in the fact that one era considers it necessary to destroy its predecessors.
They should combine their efforts against the forces of darkness...
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