Humanitas articles from September 2001

Humanitas archives from September 2001

Mill's religion of humanity: consequences and implications.(John Stuart Mill )(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... One of the more remarkable, if controversial, developments in Anglo-American society over the past century has been the transformation of liberal politics from a commitment to limited government toward the progressive expansion of governmental...

William James and the Moral Will.
September 22, 2001... Richard Rorty has characterized William James as an "aesthetic monist" whose orientation was away from philosophy and toward an artistic pose that addressed itself contemptuously toward dominant modes of discourse. In his view, James taught us...

Deconstruction: fad or philosophy?
September 22, 2001... Disseminate, v. [f. L. disseminat- ppl. stem of disseminare to spread abroad, disseminate, f. Dis- I+semen, semin- seed; cf. F. disseminer (14th c. in Littre).] 1. trans. lit. To scatter abroad, as in sowing seed; to spread here and there; to...

Descartes's paradoxical politics.(Rene Descartes)
September 22, 2001... In his Discours preliminaire to the Encyclopedie, the French philosophe d'Alembert penned the following tribute to Descartes: He can be thought of as a leader of conspirators who, before anyone else, had the courage to arise against a...

From 'Inner Check' to 'Bank Check': Post-Babbitt literary criticism.(Irving Babbitt )(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... For some of his admirers, Irving Babbitt is a major political thinker; for others he is the embodiment of higher culture, an exemplary literary scholar, or the outstanding model for American humanism. In what follows I shall not attempt to...