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4-831: It publishes Humanitas (journal) and the Epistulae Occasional Papers. The National Humanities Institute operates the Irving Babbitt Project and the Center for Constitutional Studies. Claes G. Ryn is the institute's chairman. Joseph Baldacchino is the institute's president. Robert F. Ellsworth and Anthony Harrigan serve on its board of trustees. Among its academic board are George W. Carey, Jude P. Dougherty, David C. Jordan, Ralph Ketcham, Forrest McDonald , Walter A. McDougall , Jacob Neusner, James Seaton, Peter J. Stanlis , and Michael A. Weinstein. Humanitas (journal) Humanitas

8-457: Is an interdisciplinary journal published by The Academy of Philosophy & Letters. It is known for its affiliation with traditionalist conservatism . The journal seeks to foster among its readers and contributors a spirit of open inquiry, a willingness to subject cherished doctrines to challenge and look beyond conventional categories of thought. Humanitas explores issues of moral and social philosophy , epistemology, and aesthetics, and

12-724: The founding editors of this journal in 1987. Originally published by the National Humanities Institute , Humanitas was subsequently published by the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America . The Academy of Philosophy and Letters now publishes the journal with the assistance of the Philosophy Documentation Center . The current editors are Emily B. Finley and Ryan R. Holston. Humanitas

16-473: The relations among them, such as the moral and cultural conditions of knowledge. Favorable to an historical understanding of life, Humanitas explores the tension and union between universality and particularity, and the interdependence and opposition of creativity and tradition. Fruitful new thinking will resist reductionism and will, for example, distinguish between contrasting strains within modernity and postmodernity. Joseph Baldacchino and Claes G. Ryn were

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