Corliss Lamont
Corliss Lamont
Corliss Lamontwas an American socialist philosopher and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. As a part of his political activities he was the Chairman of National Council of American-Soviet Friendship starting from the early 1940s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 March 1902
CountryUnited States of America
brain causes sequence
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
account activities brain explain order phenomenon special stomach
It makes no more sense to postulate a special brain-soul in order to account for the activities of the brain than to postulate a special stomach-soul in order to explain the functioning of the stomach or a special lung-soul to explain the phenomenon
intuition doe philosopher
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
giving intuition free-will
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
philosophy humanity democracy
To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.
family cities feelings
Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.
past ethics morality
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.
sex morality neglect
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
philosophy men self
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.
believe men decision
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
men two decision
Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.
movement ongoing action
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
ethics realms willing
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
creating giving imagination
There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.