Word: staces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute began in May, 1955, when Halton delivered four sermons attacking Walter T. Stace, professor of Philosophy, for "professional incompetence." Labeling Stace's Metaphysics "a metaphysical mambo," Halton later charged the professor with "poisoning the minds of students with incompetence for 38 years." He contended that Stace had made 22 errors of fact in his treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas, which, he said, implied that Stace had not read the Summa Theologica...
...criticisms of Stace had brought a lively response, the indictment of the Religion Department unleashed a debate which has held the attention of the Princeton campus for a good deal of the time since. Halton maintained that the eight graders at the St. Paul's Parochial School had more formal training in Catholic doctrine than the professors in Princeton's Department of Religion. He suggested that the University either hire an "authoritative spokesman" for Catholicism or not discuss that religion...
Princeton's Walter T. Stace. 68, onetime British colonial official (he was mayor of Colombo, Ceylon), now one of the leading philosophers of the English-speaking world. A shy, retiring scholar, Stace started out training for the ministry at Dublin's Trinity College, has combined his studies of Western classic philosophers with quiet reflection on the world's religions. "Civilization," he concluded, "is organized goodness," and goodness comes, not from reason or faith alone, but from a "moral intuition"-a sense of the eternal order ruled by a god who is at once the ultimate mystery...
...interesting to see your May 5 article on Professor Stace's contribution to current irrationalism. Unfortunately, he is not alone in claiming that knowledge of the existence of God must come through a "fif" (funny internal feeling), rather than through reason. There are many today, however, for whom fifs are not enough...
...Philosopher Stace, please tell...