Richard Hofstadter vs. Kirby Page
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Richard Hofstadter
1916 – 1970
Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of "consensus history", and was epitomized by some of his admirers as the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus." Others see in his work an early critique of the one-dimensional society, since he was equally critical of socialist and capitalist models of society, and bemoaned the "consensus" within the society as "bounded by the horizons of property and entrepreneurship", criticizing the "hegemonic liberal capitalist culture running throughout the course of American history".
"It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of eithe…"
Kirby Page
1890 – 1957
Kirby Page (1890–1957) was an American Disciples of Christ minister, an author, and a peace activist.
"Repudiation of the principle of defensive killing and the reliance upon ethical means of resistance are imperative if the vicious circle of taking life in order…"
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