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...subject. But François Mauriac, a Roman Catholic and one of the most gifted of living French novelists, was pulled up short 23 years ago by the challenge of a friend and fellow Catholic: Was Mauriac's fascination with sin a shade too rapt for piety? Advised Thomist Jacques Maritain: let Mauriac examine his soul to see whether it was pure enough to portray evil "without conniving with...
...Yale philosophy department has all sorts-logical positivists and metaphysicians (e.g., Carl Hempel and Paul Weiss), Agnostic F.S.C. Northrop, Physicist Henry Margenau, Idealist Theodore Greene. Last week, Yale added the final diversity-a Thomist, and the only Jesuit professor at any big non-Catholic university...
...what sort of line he would follow as chancellor of Chicago, Kimpton would give only a philosopher's hint last week. "I am not a Thomist," said he. "You might call me a neo-Kantian." Thomist or not, Kimpton seemed as good a successor to Hutchins as any the trustees would ever have found in the 3,200 pages of Who's Who. Explained one trustee: "He knows how to say no, and that's about three-fourths of the job of being chancellor...
Already Saga's little cell of Communists has wilted under the pressure. On the second day of the instruction classes, a group of Red hecklers were so effectively silenced by an onslaught of Thomist dialectics that they have not shown up since...
...Centered. A social critic as well as a philosopher, Maritain applies Thomist principles to such contemporary phenomena as industrialism, modern art, anti-Semitism and communism. Aiming his attacks at both man-centered Marxism and capitalism, Maritain proposes a God-centered "Christian humanism." Says he: "God trains us through our disillusionments and mistakes to understand at last that we must believe only in Him and not in men, which places us in the proper position to marvel at ... all the good which [men] do in spite of themselves...