{Amitology}*[20th December 1990]

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…and* (2) the necessity for the study of non-sexual altruistic love as a science in order to avert world-wide chaos. ‘In his** view, this necessity followed from his principle of polarisation, according to which the moral indifference prevailing under ordinary circumstances is supplanted, for the duration of a crisis, by the extremes of selfishness and altruism. His study of the possibility of consensus and peace through love and mutual aid is sometimes called “amitology”.’

*[See last previous entry]

**[Pitirim Sorokin; see last previous entry]

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