International classroom; Charles Malik lecture 2, part 1

If one person is in sinning against the eternal longor by making reason all with a third of the nature of things will soon catch up with and then you tell him. To be sure. The phenomenon of the brain process was not in the past and certainly is not today and noone in this Capitol government have imported professors scientists scholars and thinkers from all over the United States and even the world and put them to good national youth. This is let good committed and good but this method of importing and using bug violence to the creative mind on two scores is the important one support and the

promise of poor thing up. What is the creative mind can exist only in the rootedness and continuity. And B the perp with all the importing is due namely to order the intellectual and spiritual to be practical and political. The creative mind can qualify only as an end in itself. There is no dearth of thinkers scientists and scholars in Washington brought here on special assignment but they do not perform in independent all his folly. Please continue with intellectual community and therefore they cannot pursue their creative scholarship in peace and indeed.

And nor Sue nor do they accomplish their mission. Then they return to the university where no doubt enrich tromping by their experience here. But being back with them an immense baggage or papers and documents for use in their scholarship and reflective thinking and where. What appears to be lacking then is not the presence of individual thinkers scientists and scholars here and there in Washington doing each irresponsible and excellent political what appears to be lacking it is. For science and scholarship in themselves for science and scholarship you need her to tell you recognize as belonging to the highest quality living for robbing

her many happy independent community of thinkers scientists and scholars rooted from generation to generation on the shores of the Potomac beside the government but completely independent who began at correcting in all fields of learning first class students from all over the world. The envy of other communities of scholars and thinkers anywhere and pursuing each his own independent research in these two entities overstimulating active sustaining and respectful atmosphere. This being the situation in Washington we are constrained in these lectures to make a special effort

to live in the world or in the cell by you and point away from the formalities of diplomacy in life through the political fuel and the distractions and pressures of the immediate national and international responsibility. We cannot allow the electoral handicap of Washington to divert or deem our vision or the truth. This is the most difficult fight involving IS a dog by mentionable and peek a boo boo to a lonely at the precipice will be. One sometimes granted on his need

to view all things about him in no other way. And if it is true that the ultimate issues are raised in presupposed by the present world situation transcend all issues they don't all go to see. Then Norse saga is too strenuous nor sacrifice too costly to apply to the fluid in the beauty and to disclose them indeed precisely in what. This is not a course in international relief nor is it the course and quality healthier although a fair grounding in both is presupposed.

Not a discourse limited or determined in any way by the actual operational policy or the prudent course of the regional diplomacy. What then is this course about. What is it in. With respect bourse to method and proof object matter this is properly a course in philosophy. It's not good. Maybe because that is intelligible but can we say that even its subject matter is a lot of thinking.

We speak of philosophical issues in world religion. The term philosophical issues means precisely the single issue. In world religion. But now just what is meant by philosophic matter. And what is meant by an issue in the world really. And that is often. What is meant by seeing that present day world conditions were raised and presuppose certain philosophical issues.

There are economic issues over World Cup in international markets. Some of you are there with all that protective about it. But until payment international trade the problem of free trade. The competition between the economy economy economy the few would between the sixes in this heaven then you will. The flue capital across international. The relationship between the economic between the economically

industrialized in the economically underdeveloped prayed all of the Industrial Revolution the world of the technological revolution etc.. So what is meant by speaking of economic issues in world relief it is quite clear. And these issues are dealt with by an Adventist branch of the science of economics employing not only the concepts and procedures of their time but a great deal that goes under the name of international political theory and practice in degree do you know who all of. The communist treatment of economic world issues fall under this rubric.

Again the politic issues inherent in the present world situation are more difficult to grasp. The eight year old my own 90 items on the agenda of the General Assembly of the United Nations each year the scope of these issues will be an issue in their day to day operations are dealing with them all the time. The question is always one national security agreement and disagreement negotiation and compromise. Asia and Africa are undergoing his fundamental readjustment in the relief both between themselves and with us through the work that is if the world between Moscow and Washington is the ally

of the few others whose effect is to condition and to blow out of the sharpness of this polarization. There is the complex question of Ottoman rearmament and disarmament in the revolutionary impact of the atom the rocket and the artificial Earth satellite on world politics. There are also the age old rivalries in conflict between government and state rivalries and conflicts. Put back sure the mob Julie did a fresh and even at times revolutionise by these other development the political issues inherent in the present world situation are therefore quite please. Operationally. They form the subject matter of government policy and

theoretically they are dealt with by the discipline today and international relations. In any of its diverse for Again there are certainly social issues in the world really. The fundamental social revolution is spreading all over the world. Classes are more and more merging into each other. The upper classes in a state of increasing submergence the lower and the increasing emergence Closs fluidity is Mormon and the class distinctions tend to disappear. The masses are rising everywhere.

This is the age of the universal proletarian revolution there is a world wide clamor for human rights. Equality between individuals between races between people between nations between cultures is possible. Is stridently a socialism man is a functional society man as possessing the right to be there so fired he is duty bound to serve the individual. All this is a distinctive feature of our time. The concept of a constantly rising standard of living for all men and all people is a fundamental social political economic axe you until we see

that vast social phenomena are cutting across the otherwise placid cultures and people in a dynamic upsurge whose end we cannot now see. Consequently when we speak of social issues in the world relations we know what we mean and these issues could be started by the disciplines of sociology and cultural anthropology. Again it's easy to explain what we mean when we say world relations today are marked by education and. Everybody everywhere is to be educated. The wiping out all the literalists who use a universal urge.

There are 50000 students in the United States alone. There are countless educational missions and extreme views of carloads between nations in its widest sense education include propaganda. And there is no nation to do that is not engaged in. And that's not itself a subject of some form of propaganda. Think of the flood of magazines and books and words both spoken and written all over the world today. Think of how each people is. Writing not only the tone is good and the ending and then think about which people is writing not

only its own is doing what they used to do bad and even world history from its own point of view. Think of how each people is not only anxious to learn but all for interest to teach namely to prove that it too is something unique and something distinctive to their work. Think about people tries to develop its own system of education consciously bringing out its own value in contradistinction to devalue the value of its own moral content its own interpretation of the universe. Educational issues on a world scale are more then difficult to identify and each one of the phenomena to which we allude it can be made the subject

of the fascinating investigation with doulas borrowed from a variety of disciplines. The culture is wider than the merely education. And here too we recognize cultural issues in the world really. People are exposed to our mothers we in customs as never before. Mutual modification is occurring everywhere one can write in interesting three things it cannot be a Ph.D. thesis. This is much higher than a ph because a student lightning B teaches on this subject I'm about to indicate to you. Cannot grasp is something to be done by it put in much much

more mature than a mere graduate too. But one can write an interesting treatise on how you look at Africa Asia China and Russia are in diverse we being Americanized. Russia consciously aimed at out American ising Antarctic and she appears to be a remarkably. Conversely Conversely the direct and indirect Russian challenge and booty has contributed materially to the weakening of the proletariat everywhere and I doubt that the mess it would have gotten is the Hare who without this talons and

goading of Russia if only they were left to the challenge that was presented them by Europe and the West. Just as you know one thing the world has been Americanized. So when the novelty of the world has been communist namely communism has enhanced the social and economic consciousness everywhere. When we say this is the age of the universal proletarian revolution we literally mean this is the age in which the ocean mind is exerting to the men the worldwide impact through the instrumentality of this revolution the revolution is the big polluter will export. What are you what are

the notions of independent national policy international judical equality which together with the adoption of more or less efficient governmental administration and together with the introduction of science and then revert to belief in the rebirth of the invaded the VOC domains What are the things you reckon you'll be over us when you say Mainland China has been communist. What do you mean by that. What do you mean. But they're

they're all European culture which is represented by a Marxism Leninism which is in Cranford in Russia has overwhelmed China. For many a long day the process of cultural transmission has been for the most part one way namely from Mediterranean Western Civilization and its dual dialect offshoot America and Russia to do the rest of the world. But already we put a c section in the effort to me of cultural identity and played in Asia and Africa so that the day may not be hollow. We're in the process of cultural transmission will become significantly to all the opening.

So place by point B and others about the character of the London European cultural contribution. When the present reaction fully matured on it one speculated sentimental and topically ungrounded we can expect in modern European culture a reaction but we can neither predict its character nor thirty minutes climbing. Then when this reaction we can all to expect a counter reaction to it from the European western side that important economic issues

social issues education and intellectual and cultural issues in here in present the word religion is quite likely. And these issues are clearly form the subject matter of the whole discipline. All combinations of discipline where again the philosophical. At the end of the economic the political the social the educational and the Cultural have been solidly examined what is there left over to discuss. How does philosophy are all in this realm on the one hand it is quite clear that the five orders of issues to which I referred in here in world religions. But it's not clear at all. The last article on the other hand it's quite clear where the philosophy of all eyes is that I didn't epistemological

in aesthetics in ethics in metaphysics in theology. And of course today in some quarters in the exclusive world. But luckily that you can authentically philosophize. About what religion. The theme of these echoes appears that will be quite better today by the time to examine whether we are dealing with completely about one thing. You heard Dr. Charles Malik professor in the School of International Service at the American University in Washington and one of a series of classroom lectures on philosophical issues in world relations. These lectures were recorded by station w o am you and I made available to the station by the National Association of educational broadcasters. This is the end E.B. Radio

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