Philosopher-Educator Smith
Conveys Concept of U. S.
Abroad in the world today
there is a kind of poison... a
concept that U.S. civilization is
completely materialistic, T. V.
Smith, philosopher and educa
tor, told Tuesday's assembly j
audience.
Smith was the keynote speaker
for the Festival of Arts which
opened Tuesday. His talk was
entitled “Our Magnificent Cen
tury.”
Defining materialism as that
which fails to provide for the
improvement of man, after a late
Chinese statesman, Smith said
that in this light, the U.S. could
not possibly accept the charge of
materialism.
“This day is not one day too
early to get over accepting this
charge ... this corrupt charge
that there is a civilization more
spiritual than ours,” Smith de
clared.
“To look anew without fear"
is not to emphasize our progress
in gadgeteering but to look at
the broad sweep of the century,
including art and religion. Smith
continued.
Defines Art and Religion
Tieing art and religion to
gether, Smith defined art as
“dealing with objects worth
while in themselves” and religion
as “concerned with virtue in its
own sake.”
“I myself ar not blind to con
veniences. I love every single
gadget,” Smith said, “but I pre
fer to think not merely of pro
ductive and distributive achieve
ments, but of the general cul
tural atmosphere in which these
achievements are made.”
According to Smith, the chal
lenge of the century is “the mag
nificent possibility of making
spiritual life the flowering of
productive energy.”
By doing this we shall no
longer “be proud of superstition
or shamed of our great produc
tive surplus,” Smith said.
It has not always been pos-!
sible to define religion in this
way, Smith continued, “because
people have not always been able
to recognize and solve their
problems.”
Three Duties Listed
Smith gave three duties and
privileges which Americans
should follow to refute the
charge of materialism. They
must solve problems, resolve pre
dicaments and absolve oneself
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from a sense of guilt which pre
vents doing the first two.
According to Smith, problems
and predicaments are two dif
ferent concepts. Problems can be
solved, and are made to be
solved. Predicaments, which con
stitute most human difficulties. |
cannot be solved, but only re
solved. Science cannot be ap
plied to predicaments.
"I never have gotten any help
from science and I never expect
to,” Smith declared.
Predicaments are most notice
able on the international level.
Smith continued. They arise
when two or more intelligent,
honest people have diverging
viewpoints and each thinks the
other view is “cockeyed.” He
cited politics as the most notable
example of a predicament.
Compromise Described
"To recognize that politics
deals with predicaments and not
problems, should enable us to
concede to the different view
points,” Smith said, “and to
reach the high arc of human
compromise.”
Actually, “legislatures just
mess up old problems" in trying
to resolve their predicaments, in
Smith's view. They do not recog
nize that problems are not cas
ual, hence there is no solution.
Religion provides one way of
absolving ourselves from un
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necessary guilt, as the third
"privilege and duty of man," I
Smith stated.
Smith cited suicide and psy
choanalysis as other ways in
which modern people try to solve
their predicaments, when they
come to the realization that their
best is not enough to solve even
the smallest of the world’s _ pre
dicaments.
Whoever has found in himself
the ability to laugh at trouble
and to realize that he himself is
as cockeyed as he believes other
people to be is on the path to
living with predicaments and
problems, instead of trying to
solve the insoluble Smith con
cluded.
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