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On Equilibrium
Six Qualities of the New Humanism
By Saul, John S.
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- ISBN
- 978-1-56858-293-1
- Publisher
- Four Walls Eight Windows
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Reviewed on January 12, 2004
This intriguing but often murky treatise on political philosophy extols balance and moderation in an incongruously vehement tone. Saul, an economist and philosopher and author of Voltaire's Bastards, sees humanism as a"dynamic equilibrium" between the six"qualities" of common sense, ethics, imagination, intuition, memory and reason; trouble starts when balance is disrupted and one quality overshadows the others. In particular, reason--which modernity elevates into a false god, he says--must be tempered by other qualities. Otherwise, we develop a simplistic,"linear" mindset fixated on illusory"certainties," and eventually succumb to"id...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
