Philosophy for American Students.
FIESS, E.
Philosophy for American Students. Review by E. FIESS PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN SOU-CATION: Itt Taiki and Opportuni. tiet. By Brand Blamhard, Cart J. DnruMtr, t limit* W. Hendrl, Arthur E. Murphy, and...
...Hocking challenges us to abandon spiritual isolationism a» a prerequisite to entering an age of "One Worldliness...
...Her book should be read with especial interest by young people in search of careers...
...He marks the path by a keen analysis of the nature of religion, the essential similarities of the great faiths, and the reasons for their differences...
...The ice-age forced the trees south, destroying many varieties—all the ginkos, all the tulips save one kind, and all hut one of the sycamores...
...It is a synthesis no one seriously interested in religion should miss...
...In a witty opening essay Brand Blanshard sets forth the procedure of the study and its general problems...
...Although the authors show a healthy avoidance of all such panaceas as the St...
...From that the reader may go on to the separate discussions of such, topics as the achievement of American philosophy, the form of college courses, the relationship of philosophy to the major, the place of graduate school study, etc...
...By Martha Bentley Bruere...
...Forests are vital not only for their potentialities—paper, lumber, oleo-resin, cellulose, plastics—but for what they do, as we have been finding out the bard way...
...In substance, it gives, though never dogmatically, the answers to these questions, with the discussion of many allied matters...
...and second, that a liberal edu cation is a philosophical one and vice versa, for one cannot exist without the other...
...At a time when the atom bomb has made many plain people consciously philosophical, this book is welcome indeed...
...The forests returned, when the glaciers retreated, but did not recapture all the territory they had lost...
...It will be read, as a matter of course, by teachers of philosophy...
...But I believe that many of the people I see are Weak for lack of a philosophy...
...New Yo,k, 1945...
...Harper...
...The studio- contained in this symposium are seldom profound, are not intended to be "popular," and the total effect is weak in synthesis...
...280 p'lyet, 13.50...
...Jllui-irate...
...The freedom of the mind to inquire and to learn from others' experiments is a biiii, value...
...Or he may think such fleeting and slightly unpleasant thoughts ae these: "Here we have philosophers talking to other philosophers, the most private kind of discourse in the world...
...Today only a third of the United States is treecovered...
...The amount of information packed into it, however—bibliographical, historical, statistical—is encyclopedic...
...The study from which it grew took a year and a half and included numerous letters, some of which are quoted, and seven regional conferences for professionals and layman interested in philos ophy, as well as many interviews...
...This reviewer's conclusion in brief is: buy it...
...By Edgcumb Pinchon, Doubleday, Doran <C- Co...
...1942, 1943, J946...
...it ought to be resd by intelligent men of all sorts, for they may trust their sons, their daughters, and themselves to any institutions in which the spirit shown in this book prevails...
...W. F...
...This is enough, even for greatly increased modern usage, but we should npt let the percentage of forested land fall lower...
...Bruere not only stirs enthusiasm for the reforestation schemes on foot or projected, but suggests the wide variety of jobs—scientific, adventurous, agricultural, statistical—-that they open up...
...For those Who are disgusted with present ways and present wars it contains, moreover, more than one piece of interesting information about how men acted and thought in days when soldiers made some pretense of gallantry and war did not involve the liquidation of moral ideals...
...And philosophers so often write badly...
...If we admit that there is a little truth to the charge that philosophers can and do write badly on many subjects (and the author ad-mils it), certainly the charge cannot lie brought against any part of this report...
...The book is clearly intended to be seminal in its impact...
...He may go no far tbei localise of hie failure to associate the Sentence with anything in his own experience...
...Charles Hendel, writing on The Role of Philosophy in Civilization, stalls the assumptions which these philosophers and most others in America hold: It is the tradition of our civilisation that the cultural life of society is not to be under any authoritative control but that there must be a free interplay for all these forms of culture...
...i But in all this philosophy never acts as an authority, only as a guide...
...By Brand Blamhard, Cart J. DnruMtr, t limit* W. Hendrl, Arthur E. Murphy, and Mojc C. Otto...
...I WOnder why we need courses of philosophy- in our colleges anyway...
...There is, for example, an- implicit sense of the good of the community in the creative work of the artist, scientist, or philosopher, and in the spiritual messages of religion...
...it should be read by educators in other fields, for their work will benefit by it...
...CIVIL WAR HERO DAN SICKLES...
...2.00...
...few so incurious they would not be stimulsted by it...
...B. The Orient's Influence on Civilization Reeiew by ROBERT T. OLIVER THE ASIAN LEGACY AND AMERICAN LIEE...
...x 276...
...Ettayt Arranged and Edited by Arthur E. Chritty...
...When academic plans in the form of commission reports and studies are corrr-ing out of Yale and Harvard and attracting nation-wide attention, this book seems particularly timely...
...Philosophy also directs attention to the ends which all those various forms of culture must serve if they are doing their right work in the culture of man...
...Professor Christy is to be warmly congratulated upon his judgment "in initiating the study, selecting the scholars, and establishing a sound pattern for their contributions...
...159 page...
...H. II...
...What does philosophy have to do With my actions today or tomorrow or with the business of the world for that matter...
...In spite of all the diversity of views which we welcome and defend, then, we do hob' this truth to be, if- not self-evident, at any rate thoroughly justifiable by reason and experience...
...John's plan, they pound home two main points: first, that the basic questions which trouble our age or any other (totalitarianism versus democracy, technology and morality, etc...
...i 00...
...It is st least as interesting as the best of the historical novels which are now so popular...
...its purpose is not to satisfy the reader, but to stimulate and guide him to further study...
...Tills book was written for a group wc may all hope is large and will become larger: namely, aspiring students of the Orient, who know little of it and want to know more...
...when the white settlers arrived, this land was only half forested...
...have philosophical roots, that man cannot pursue even his everyday affairs without some philosophy, however makeshift or unconscious...
...Lippincott...
...Careers in Our Forests YOl'R FORESTS...
...John Day...
...Ironically enough, that hypothetical reader would be holding in his hands the very book that he wants...
...TlIIS is,a Smartly written biography of a Civil War hero who was one of the strangest and most romantic figures in our history...
...3.50...
...This shows that general education, though free and scattered, as it,were, through all the multifarious agencies that cultivate the mind and heart of man, actually does converge upon some common truths ; id convictions...
...how many meanings does this word 'philosophy' have...
...There are few readers so well informed they would not profit by having this reference work* at hand...
...Proper tree planting can prevent floods, erosion, sandstorms, and can bring ruined land back to fruitfillness...
...M ANY" a |irrson who takes U|i this volume ami reads the first sentence on the jacket flap, "This book embodies the report to the American Philosophical Association of its Commission of live members on the Function of Philosophy in American Education," is all too likely to set it'down again...
...Perhaps my college course in philosophy was poorly taught, or maybe I was stupid, but the whole thing seemed unreal...
...The writing is clear and sometimes brilliant...
...The eleven collaborators learnedly and indisputably document the point that the Orient has played a vital part in shaping the civilisation of the West: they indicate tba' the process ia likely to continue...
...TlIIS delightfully written book dramatizes the more than age-long story of American forests, from a mighty geological disturbance some 44 million years ago to the present day, and sketches the forest drama to come, in which our generation can, if it will, play an intelligent and controlling part...
...It offers hundreds of leads which the inquiring student may profitably folic w. Rising like a mountain peak among the useful tlatlamls of the othci chap ters is the mature insight of- knowledge become-wisdom in Frnest William Hock ing's essays on lAving Re I m «»¦• and a World Faith...
...It is set down as a firm principle for education as well as for civilization...
...iOG page...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
