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...Front Page tradition, Chicago Daily News Columnist Sydney J. (for Justin) Harris, 35, uses a more intellectual text as his guide. Says he: "I'm just a second-string Aristotle." By serving up his batch of high-and lowbrow opinions on everything from neon signs to neo-Thomism, Columnist Harris has become the most quoted newsman in the city. He has also become the center of countless arguments, whether discussing free love ("It frequently takes a man a long time to learn that free love is more expensive than any other kind") or setting readers straight on Nietzsche...
Father Murray looks forward to introducing Yalemen to Thomism: "I want to show it is a rational philosophy, that it's acceptable intellectually, not only because great intellectuals of previous ages have accepted it, but in itself as a mode and body of thought. If I can't make my students see it, that's the end." The betting at Woodstock is that Murray will make them...
Past v. Present. As time passed, the Chicago Fight earned the university various tags-"Chicago Thomism," "Aristotelianism on the Midway," the "Return to the Middle Ages." Some professors, including Gideonse and George Mead, head of the philosophy department, resigned. One hundred and nineteen members of the academic senate signed a manifesto protesting Hutchins' views. Professors began calling him "Saint Robert of the Midway." >A new song was sung: "Should auld Aquinas be forgot...
...Existentialism" is more than the name of a jittery Paris fad; it is a description of any philosophy that takes as its starting point the elementary fact of human existence. The word, and the Catholic Church's wish to assist Thomism's prior claim to it, had brought 13th Century Existentialist Aquinas and 20th Century Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre together. The whole room rustled when white-maned Philosopher Jacques Maritain stood up to speak...
Professor Francis E. McMahon of the University of Chicago, formerly professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame, will give a lecture on "The International Implications of Thomism" tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson A. The lecture is open to the public. As past president of the Catholic Association for International Peace, Professor McMahon is well known, and is generally regarded as an authority on scholastic philosophy...