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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...
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...
...longtime professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris, Maritain has lectured at top European universities (Oxford, Heidelberg, Louvain, Milan). The fall of France found him on the U.S. university lecture circuit (Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton). He settled down to a Greenwich Village exile, walked daily to mass at old St. Joseph's, consumed quantities of peanuts and ginger ale, and held a Sunday salon frequented by savants and celebrities. Said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Maritain [belongs] to that small company of great spirits in any age from whom one may learn...