Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Political and Economic Clout from Harvard: Humanism

For centuries,Harvard has produced a veritable "Who's Who in America." That is not untrue. Professor John K. Galbraith is one of the outstanding economists at Harvard.

President-Elect Obama, an alumnus of Harvard and family arrived in Hawaii for surfside respite.

Washington Post,Dec.21,2008 on age A10: Humanists in Boston. Tony Proctor,39,who owns a wealth management firm and attended the seminar at Harvard University with his wife,Andrea,35,a stay-at-home mother.

Humanism is both a formal movement and an informal identification of folks who promote values of reason,compassion and human dignity. Such values are definitely incorporated in major religions? Food for thought as metaphor.

In recent years, the chaplaincy at Harvard has hosted humanist speakers such as Nobel Economist Amartya Sen and others. Epstein is the Harvard humanist chaplain.

Confucianism has influenced folks in China but there are folks who believes in different religion with faiths in Divine Providence. Famous Chinese official Xu Guang-qi is a typical case of humanistic Confucian converting to Christianity in Shanghai. John C. H. Wu,former Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii published "Beyond East and West." May be searched at www.Google.com Since China is the most populous nation in the world and humanism should be applicable to China for humanity. Readers are expected to think,ponder and reflect about all human beings for humanity during Yuletide season with the aphorism: Peace on Earth and Goodwill toward all humankind with humanity.

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, a student of economic philosophy on December 23, 2008

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