The Great Ideas Today 1971

520 Pages·1971·24.85 MB·English

by  Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Animal Fate
Aristocracy Form
Art God
Astronomy Good and Evil
Beauty Government
Being Habit
Cause Happiness
Chance History
Change Honor
Citizen Hypothesis
Constitution Idea
Courage Immortality
Custom and Convention Induction
Definition Infinity
Democracy Judgment
Desire Justice
Dialectic Knowledge
Duty
Labor
Education
Language
Element
Law
Emotion
Liberty
Eternity
Life and Death
Evolution
Logic
Experience
Love
Man
Mathematics
Matter
Mechanics
Medicine
Memory and Imagination
Metaphysics
Mind
Monarchy
Nature
Necessity and Contingency Slavery
Oligarchy Soul
One and Many Space
Opinion State
Opposition Temperance
Philosophy Theology
Physics Time
Pleasure and Pain Truth
Poetry Tyranny
Principle Universal and Particular
Progress Virtue and Vice
Prophecy War and Peace
Prudence Wealth
Punishment Will
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“....a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as
shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself
at last free....” Woodrow Wilson
The
Great Ideas
dbclay
1971
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Contents
part one The World Community: A Symposium
Introduction 2
Human Rights Since 1945: An Appraisal
Rene Cassin 4
Ecology: A World Concern Henry J. Kellermann 16
Toward a World University Arthur Lall 40
Economic Growth:
Some Pessimistic Reflections E. J. Mishan 52
The Prospects for World Government
Joseph S. Clark 72
The Idea of World Community in
Great Books of the Western World 89
part two The Year’s Developments in the Arts
and Sciences
New Developments in Classical Studies
M. I. Finley 122
Revolution in the Earth Sciences Peter J. Wyllle 168
Civil Disobedience Marshall Cohen 238
PART three The Contemporary Status of a Great Idea
Sources of Our Common Thought:
Homer and Plato I. A. Richards 280
PA RT FOUR Additions to the Great Books Library
Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution 328
The Problem of World Government
Jacques Maritain 346
On the Formation of Coral-Reefs Charles Darwin 364
The Battle of the Books Jonathan Swift 380
On Translating Homer Matthew Arnold 402
The Time Machine H.G. Wells 446