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Humanism and the Middle Class
Trilling, Lionel | May 7, 1949 issue

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The article presents information about poet Arnold Matthew and his views about humanism and the middle class. Humanism is the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and at that in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfils his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. Humanism in modern Europe has long been identified with the bourgeoisie. Arnold himself made that identification in the sense that it was particularly to the middle class that he wanted to transmit the humanist tradition. He believed that the great intellectual work to be done in his time was with the middle class.

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MATTHEW, Arnold; POETS; HUMANISM; MIDDLE class; PHILOSOPHY; EUROPE
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