Albert E. Avey

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Avey, Albert E. (1886—1963)

Avey, a philosopher at Ohio State University, responded to Warren Allen Smith concerning various categories of humanism:

• My position is theistic “superhumanism,” but not “supernaturalism.” Nature seems to have no limits, hence I do not know where the supernatural begins. This is not a useful distinction. But I believe the idea of God is valid when rightly reinterpreted. A form of pantheism, similar to that of Whitehead and Hartshorne, seems most adequate to present-day thinking. Man is certainly only a part of the scheme of things and not always the most significant. Yet I do not find myself torn by the inner struggles that the existentialists suffer from. I find myself sympathetic with recent neo-Kantianism, and Fichte appeals to me.

(Original Letter is in Harvard's Houghton Library.)

{WAS, 3 August 1954}