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By HOWARD TROXLER
Staff Writer
"I can see that, given a choice between
freedom and social order, social order
will be chosen, at the expense of free
culture," Dr. E. Maynard Adams,
chairperson of the UNC Philosophy
Department, warned recently. Adams
will be moderator of a weekly television
series entitled "The Idea of America"
that will be broadcast Saturdays at 7
p.m., beginning June 4, on the UNC
Television Network.
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nation, invited to participate in the
project, met last summer in North
Carolina where they each presented a
paper dealing with a specific facet of
contemporary American society. They
then met for a series of informal
discussion groups, which were filmed
and then edited. From these edited
films, University Television produced
"The Idea of America" series.
The television series analyzes
America today from the perspective of
an Enlightenment culture. The panel
members disagree on their evaluations
of contemporary America:, some are
positive, some are negative about tne
nation's current condition and the
outlook for the future.
"Enlightenment," Adams explained,
"means the attainment of freedom and
social order through knowledge and
rationality." The new American nation
in the 18th century was a "testing
ground" for this new concept, Adams
said. The programs to be aired will
analyze the concept and examine
present-day America to see if the
Enlightment ideal has been successful.
The series is an exploration of
America today, how it has changed and
how it is changing. Some of the
questions analyzed and discussed by the
panel members are:
Has American reallv been an
experiment in the applied
Enlightenment?
Why has America, the leader of the
democratic revolution, resisted the
world-wide socialist movement?
Is America today a backward,
rigid, calcified society, or is the
experimental attitude of the
Enlightenment alive and well in
America?
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Do Americans have an intellectual
vision of man and the world that will
support a free society in the years to
come?
If not, can Americans regain such a
vision?
Culture is an important factor in this
type of society, Adams said.
"Long tradition maintains that social
order required a culture and institutions
to be preserved," Adams said. "One
thing about the human era is the
development of institutionalized ways
of doing things, replacing genetic
control of behavior. A free culture is the
heart of a free society."
Distinguished scholars from around
the nation were invited to participate in
the series. They are Morton W.
Bloomfield, professor of English at
Harvard University and chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the National
Humanities Center located in the
Research Triangle Park; Peter Gay,
professor of history, Yale University."
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