Word: maritains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...define the moral problem and to speculate on a solution was the purpose of M.I.T.'s panel on "Science, Materialism and the Human Spirit." Gentle Jacques Maritain, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, was not confused about his convictions on the subject. Twentieth Century Man, he said, is becoming "unable to believe anything but facts & figures and sense-data." Maritain found the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man and things. He blamed not science itself for the 20th Century's moral crisis, but two factors bearing...
...Maritain drew a sharp line between science, concerned with exploring the material world, and philosophy, or "wisdom" and the reasoned conviction, dating back to Plato, that the foundations of morality are fixed and immutable...
Sharply opposed to Maritain were Harvard's crusty Nobel Prizewinning physicist Percy Bridgman and tall, good-humored Walter Stace, Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton. Bridgman presented the materialistic scientist's view mat the scientific method is enough to guide man, and that problems which could not be dealt with scientifically should be ignored...
...conflict between the Maritains on the one hand, the Staces and Bridg-mans on the other, a decision was still distant. But there could be no doubt that the Maritain position, which was widely derided as the century began, had once more gained a growing following among troubled men searching for truth...
Gide spends many pages of the Journals trying to prove that the Church has become an obstacle between Christ and man. As for spiritual solace, each man, he thinks, must find it within himself, in his own way and in his own time. To converted Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, who once asked him to pray for Christ's guidance, Gide replied: "Understand me, Maritain, I have lived too long and too intimately, and you know it, in the thought of Christ to agree to call on him today as one rings someone up on the telephone. Indeed...