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Living philosophies : the reflections of some eminent men and women of our time / edited by Clifton Fadiman.
Record details
- ISBN: 0385248806 :
- ISBN: 9780385248808
- Physical Description: xii, 290 pages : portraits ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 1990.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Foreword / Clifton Fadiman -- From Living philosophies (1931) / Albert Einstein -- The face of Gaia / Freeman J. Dyson -- Time's winged chariot / John Hersey -- The amateur spirit / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Toward a fateful serenity / Jacques Barzun -- Spero contra spem / Hans Küng -- Credo / Arthur C. Clarke -- Continuity and change / Elizabeth Longford -- Sequence as meaning in life / Norman Cousins -- Diversity, change, and amusement / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Respect for life / Jane Goodall -- Priest in the world / Theodore M. Hesburgh -- On erosion / Czeslaw Milosz -- Testamentary ruminations / William F. Buckley Jr. -- Reflections of a non-positive man / Alistair Cooke -- My grown-up ears / M.F.K. Fisher -- On the dangerous edge / Robertson Davies.Staying the course with honor / Stephen Jay Gould -- The umbical cord / Thor Heyerdahl -- Making sense / Jeane J. Kirkpatrick -- Cosmic ventures / Norman Mailer -- Why are you a Catholic? / Walker Percy -- Golems of the twentieth century / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- From one generation to another / Elie Wiesel -- Toward an imperfect world / Milovan Djilas -- To know the future / B.F. Skinner -- What I believe / Stephen Spender -- Struck dumb / George Steiner -- What I think / Lewis Thomas -- My credo / Desmond M. Tutu -- An evolutionary philosophy for our time / Jonas Salk -- It didn't have to be / Sidney Hook -- Confronting O'Brien / Steven Weinberg -- A philosopher looks back and forward / Mortimer Adler -- On naturalism / Edward O. Wilson -- Toward a world community / Abba Eban.
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| 505 | 2 | . | ‡aForeword / Clifton Fadiman -- From Living philosophies (1931) / Albert Einstein -- The face of Gaia / Freeman J. Dyson -- Time's winged chariot / John Hersey -- The amateur spirit / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Toward a fateful serenity / Jacques Barzun -- Spero contra spem / Hans Küng -- Credo / Arthur C. Clarke -- Continuity and change / Elizabeth Longford -- Sequence as meaning in life / Norman Cousins -- Diversity, change, and amusement / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Respect for life / Jane Goodall -- Priest in the world / Theodore M. Hesburgh -- On erosion / Czeslaw Milosz -- Testamentary ruminations / William F. Buckley Jr. -- Reflections of a non-positive man / Alistair Cooke -- My grown-up ears / M.F.K. Fisher -- On the dangerous edge / Robertson Davies. |
| 505 | 2 | . | ‡aStaying the course with honor / Stephen Jay Gould -- The umbical cord / Thor Heyerdahl -- Making sense / Jeane J. Kirkpatrick -- Cosmic ventures / Norman Mailer -- Why are you a Catholic? / Walker Percy -- Golems of the twentieth century / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- From one generation to another / Elie Wiesel -- Toward an imperfect world / Milovan Djilas -- To know the future / B.F. Skinner -- What I believe / Stephen Spender -- Struck dumb / George Steiner -- What I think / Lewis Thomas -- My credo / Desmond M. Tutu -- An evolutionary philosophy for our time / Jonas Salk -- It didn't have to be / Sidney Hook -- Confronting O'Brien / Steven Weinberg -- A philosopher looks back and forward / Mortimer Adler -- On naturalism / Edward O. Wilson -- Toward a world community / Abba Eban. |
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