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Hegel's theological writings for young people: based on the manuscripts of the Kgl. Library of Berlin. Edited by Herman Nohl.
From the library of Dr. Clemens E. Benda, the authority on Down syndrome, with a postmarked stamped envelope addressed to him laid into the book. Clemens has additionally underlined and emphasized paragraphs with marginal pencil marks throughout the chapter titled "Der Geist des Christentums und sein Schicksal" (The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate).
Considered the authority on Down syndrome, which was then referred to as "Mongolism", Dr. Clemens E. Benda (1898-1975) was recognized as an internationally known expert on "mental deficiency". Benda argued for an end to "artificial distinctions between mental defect and mental illness" and believed that "so-called mentally deficient children are often the victims of unfair and unjust discrimination". Born in Berlin where he received his medical degree, Benda worked as a psychiatrist at the Binswanger Sanitarium in Switzerland. He moved to the U.S. as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, eventually teaching at both Harvard and the University of Munich. Benda was also director of research and psychiatry for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Walter E. Fernald School, and the Wrentham State School in Massachusetts. Good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerTogether with a 5-3/4 inch high by 4-1/8 inch wide black & white portrait of the philosopher clipped from a magazine or book. Lightly creased along the top and bottom edges with remnants of tape from mounting on the verso. Very good.
The son of a Jewish Rabbi, Felix Adler (1851-1933) was born in Germany and emigrated to America with his family when he was only 6 years old. Graduating from Columbia University, he returned to Germany to obtain a doctorate from Heidelberg University before moving back to teach at Cornell University. Preaching occasional sermons at his father's Temple in New York City, Adler was noted for omitting references to god in his sermons. In 1876, at the age of 24, he founded the New York Society for Ethical Culture, which promoted social justice. An essentially Kantian moral philosophy, the Society for Ethical Culture believed in public works and the use of reason to develop ethical standards. He was the founding chairman of the National Child Labor Committee in 1904. In 1917, Adler served on the Civil Liberties Bureau which later became the ACLU and later became president of the American Philosophical Association. Although he initially supported the Spanish-American War which he viewed as an effort to liberate Cubans from Spanish rule, Adler became concerned that an imperialistic goal rather than a democratic one was guiding foreign policy. As the First World War progressed, Adler foresaw that Germany's defeat in and of itself would not make the world safe for democracy but that peace could only be achieved if democratic governments remained non-imperialistic and became active in curbing the arms race. Very good .
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In his preface to this American edition, Hans Driesch writes: "This translation corresponds to the second and third edition of 'Leib und Seele'. A few paragraphs have been cancelled and a few additions have been made..I hope that this book may help - together with my "Crisis in Psychology' - to bring American Psychology, so well developed along experimental lines, upon a truly philosophical platform. For, if I may be allowed to vary a famous dictum of Kant: Philosophy without Psychology is bare and empty, Psychology without Philosophy is blind."
From the library of the publisher, Lincoln MacVeagh, with a warm autograph letter signed addressed to him from Theodore Besterman laid in. "How I wish I had telepathically discovered your identity in Delphi or Athens! To think that I had the Dial Press at my elbow as it were, and didn't know it!".
Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972), a Renaissance man, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Classical Greek. After World War I he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947, testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9, 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal, I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland, the Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value. Very good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerThe Irish-born American Journalist David Goodman Croly (1829-1889) was associated with the New York "Evening Post" and the "Herald" before moving on as managing editor of the "World". During the Civil War, he sought to discredit the Lincoln administration and the abolitionist movement by co-authoring an anonymous pamphlet purporting to be written by an abolitionist who promoted the intermarriage between whites and blacks. This 1864 pamphlet, titled "Miscegenation" played on the racist fears common among people of the period. In effect, Croly coined the term miscegenation for the first time. In 1870, Croly published the journal "The Modern Thinker" under the pseudonym of David Goodman. The journal was a vehicle for the positivist and Spencerian philosophy of Croly and some of his colleagues including John Humphrey Noyes. The periodical ran from 1870 through 1873, a total of only 3 issues. Among other works, Croly authored a "Primer of Posivitism" (1876) and the early attempt at futurology "Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions as to the Drift of Things" (1888). It is interesting to note that David Goodman Croly was the father of Herbert Croly, the co-founder of the Progressve periodical "The New Republic".
The American philosopher and historian John Fiske (1842-1901) was one of the leading popularizers of Spencer's theory of social evolution and published several articles and reviews for The Modern Thinker.
A review of the periodical published in "The Journal of Anthropology, Volume 1, No. 3 (Jan 1871)" page 355, reads: "The following extract from the introductory 'Egotisms' of the editor will show the position intended to be occupied by this new American periodical. 'The projector of The Modern Thinker is a Positivist, of the school of Auguste Comte. He does not, however, unqualifiedly accept all the speculations of that great philosopher. It is his desire to be liberal, and to open the pages of this publication to the representatives of all the advanced schools of thought, especially to the adherents of Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill.' The questions treated of in the present number are full of interest, and they are discussed with ability, and with praiseworthy absence of dogmatism. Amongst the best articles are 'The Last Word about Jesus,' by John Fiske.."
"The most fantastic of [David] Croly's literary undertakings - a radical periodical entitled The Modern Thinker - appeared in 1871 [actually 1870]. 'No journal heretofore published in the United States,' he announced, 'has made it its special business to give expression to the advanced thought of the time on philosophical, scientific, and religious questions.' The Modern Thinker would 'employ the best minds of the age as contributors.' And Croly mentioned Spencer, Huxley, George Eliot, Ernest Renan, Darwin, and the four leading disciples of Auguste Comte: Littre, Harrison, Bridges, and Congreve. Although the contributors proved to be somewhat less spectacular than advertized, they were distinguished, and the new magazine was intelligent, provocative, and filled with radical ideas." -- David W. Levy: "Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thoughts of an American Progressive" (Princeton University Press, 1984). Good .
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Holbach [d. 1780] was a wealthy patron of philosophy and a close friend of Diderot. His salon was a meeting place for the Encyclopedists, Though an amateur, he wrote extensively on science, theology, politics, morals, and philosophy, his best-known work being "Systeme de la Nature [1770], an exposition of scientific materialism. Good .
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The Scottish-American philosopher Thomas Davidson (1840-1900) was born at Old Deer near Aberdeen, Scotland. He first moved to Canada in 1866 and then to the United States a year later. He spent a few months in Boston before taking a position as classical master and subsequently principal in a St. Louis, Missouri high school. After eventually settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Davidson continued his extensive world travels while learning the languages of the cultures he visited, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic and even Latin. He studied Greek archaeology and wrote "Fragments of Parmenides". He studied in Italy, where the Pope suggested he should settle in Rome to aid those editing a new edition of "St. Thomas". He wrote "The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati.." while living in Domodossola at Piedmont and translated Rosmini's 3 volume "Psychology". Davidson was instrumental in establishing "The Fellowship of New Life" in New York and London. Influenced by Aristotle's pluralism and concepts of the soul and nous, his philosophy "apeirotheism" is described as a "form of pluralistic idealism..coupled with a stern ethical rigorism..". Lecturing at Bronson Alcott's Concord School of philosophy, Davidson wished to establish his own school and, after first setting one up in Farmington, Connecticut, he found the ideal location in Keene, in New York's Adirondack mountains. With assistance from his friend Joseph Pulitzer, Davidson purchased 167 acres where he established "The Glenmore Summer School for the Culture Sciences". The location on the east hill of Hurricane Mountain was ideal as such luminaries as William James, Felix Adler, and Prestonia Mann already owned properties in the region. Stephen F. Weston and E.T. Harris had cottages on Davidson's land and John Dewey purchased land across the brook from the school. He envisioned the school as an experiment focusing on the whole person studying intellect, affections and will. Very good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller"The six essays in this volume constitute, in one sense, an outline of Madame de Stael's education in the parliamentary system. She studied its functioning on the national level in England and America. She foresaw it as a sure foundation for understanding among states, making it possible for them to function co-operatively on an international level whenever a common enemy arose."--Authors' Preface. Fine .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerOne of a series of papers read at the Center's Monday evening sessions to Fellows of the Center and members of the Faculty. Herbert Read was a Fellow of the Center in 1964 and again in 1965 and read this paper on May 11, 1964. Fine .
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A title in the series "Les Philosophes Contemporains: Textes et Etudes". The text is in French. Fair .
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