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Opening the first session in Sanders Theatre Monday night, Professor Jacques Maritain of Princeton maintained that empiricism in philosophy had led to "the complete relativization of moral values, the high-powered narrowing of the human mind, and the disarming of freedom...
...Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews and Philosopher Jacques Maritain, LL.D.s from Notre Dame...
...fashionable in educational circles to talk about religion. The speeches at the institute amply demonstrated the change in the times. Some of the addresses were out of theology's top drawer, e.g., laymen were left to struggle along as best they could through Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's expert juggling of "essence" and "complexus," and Professor Florovsky's description of theology as "apophatic." In stressing a plea for a new social welfare system of economics somewhere between laissez faire capitalism and Communism, Unionist Reuther made his bow to religion by calling upon it to "provide...
French philosopher Jacques Maritain stated at a Lowell House meeting yesterday that the natural law derived from our own inner natures is common to both civilized and primitive peoples, and it is this law that forms the basis for all our human relations...
...Maritain sees it, the betrayal of Christianity has been done chiefly by those who are perhaps the worst atheists of all-the "practical" atheists who think of themselves as Christians. Absolute atheism is merely "a translation into crude and inescapable terms, a ruthless counterpart, an avenging mirror of the practical atheism of too many believers who do not actually believe . . . Decorative Faith is nowadays not enough . . . To believe in God must mean to live in such a manner that life cannot be lived if God does not exist...