![]() His comments on Jean-Paul Sartre, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Eliseo Vivas, Michael Polanyi, and others (collected in this book), provided me with a kind of compass in the exploration of unknown and vaguely threatening territory, “the American secular philosophical world.” I thought of Hook as my favorite atheist, my paradigmatic secular, anti-religious figure. ![]() Sidney Hook’s interest in religious figures made him perfect for my purposes. I was graduating from college then and, full of the fervor of a Catholic undergraduate, I wanted to learn from a major American philosophical figure who was unafraid to take on current social issues, in the mold of John Dewey or Jacques Maritain. Perhaps the first I read was one of the essays here collected, “The Moral Vision of Reinhold Niebuhr” (1956). For as long as I can remember I have read Sidney Hook’s books and articles fairly systematically. ![]()
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