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America: Season 2, Episodes 10 - 16
In this
series, the inquiry turns from descriptive to normative values, from the
'is' to the �ought.' Focusing on fifteen crucial problems confronting
the American people, from foreign policy decisions to matters of
personal faith, it asks: What values should guide us toward the solution
of these problems? Featured Personality: Huston Smith, a pioneer in
Educational Television, Huston Smith is known to the television public
for his two previous series: The Religions of Man and Science and Human
Responsibility. For eleven years Professor of Philosophy at Washington
University in St. Louis, he moved in 1959 to become the first Professor
of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since the
early days of that institution. An authority in comparative philosophy,
Dr. Smith is the author of The Religions of Man and The Purposes of
Higher Education.
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