With others he undertook a careful study of Protestant missionary work in the Far East and served as the author of its final report that advocated extensive changes. He served as chairman and author of the report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press. After extensive investigation and research, he published a book on post-World War II education in Germany, emphasizing where the United States could improve its perspective and treatment. His last book encouraged dialogue and cooperation in areas of common concern between the United States and the Soviet Union. He relished talking to labor-union schools in Oakland and Boston, because he admired the honesty of the workers.
Hocking's writing style was discursive, dialectical, and spiced with poetry quotations. Leaving aside the usual philosophical arguments for proving or disproving a view, he relied on a "negative pragmatism" to disclose the falsity of a belief and a more thorough questioning procedure he called "empirical dialectic" to convince a doubter of the truth of a position.
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