Background
Ruth Nanda Anshen was born on June 14, 1900 in Lynn, Massachusetts to Jewish Russian immigrants.
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She studied at Boston University under Alfred North Whitehead.
Career
She was the author of several books including The Anatomy of Evil, Biography of An Idea, Morals Equals Manners and The Mystery of Consciousness: A Prescription for Human Survival. During her education, she developed a desire to unite scholars from all over the world from varying to fields. In 1941, she put together the Science of Culture Series, hoping to develop a “unitary principle under which there could be subsumed and evaluated the nature of man and the nature of life, the relationship of knowledge to life.” This series continued on for two decades and included Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Thomas Mann, and Whitehead on its board of editors.
In 1958, she established the Anshen-Columbia University Seminars on the Nature of Manitoba
Anshen died at age 103. Anshen was the editor of several series of books, including the World Perspectives Series, published by Harper & Row, of which volume nine was The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm and volume 44 was Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich.
Membership
She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of London, a member of the American Philosophical Association, the History of Science Society, the International Philosophical Society and the Metaphysical Society of America.
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Humanist