Mysticism and Philosophy

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About the author of Mysticism and Philosophy
W. T. Stace was born in London in 1886. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and majored in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his B.A. degree in 1908. He has intimate knowledge of the life and thought of the East, as well as of the West, having held various appointments, including that of Mayor of Colombo, in the Ceylon Civil Service between 1910 and 1932. While in Ceylon, he acquired an interest in Buddhism and Hindu religions and philosophies.
In 1929, Mr. Stace obtained a Litt.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, presenting his book, The Philosophy of Hegel, as thesis. In 1932 he went to Princeton University as lecturer and was Professor of Philosophy there from 1935 until his recent retirement. During the academic year of 1960-61 he is teaching philosophy at Mt. Holyoke College and in the spring of 1961 he is to conduct a seminar on the subject of mysticism and philosophy. Mr. Stace was one of about fifty... Tovább

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About the author of Mysticism and Philosophy
W. T. Stace was born in London in 1886. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and majored in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his B.A. degree in 1908. He has intimate knowledge of the life and thought of the East, as well as of the West, having held various appointments, including that of Mayor of Colombo, in the Ceylon Civil Service between 1910 and 1932. While in Ceylon, he acquired an interest in Buddhism and Hindu religions and philosophies.
In 1929, Mr. Stace obtained a Litt.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, presenting his book, The Philosophy of Hegel, as thesis. In 1932 he went to Princeton University as lecturer and was Professor of Philosophy there from 1935 until his recent retirement. During the academic year of 1960-61 he is teaching philosophy at Mt. Holyoke College and in the spring of 1961 he is to conduct a seminar on the subject of mysticism and philosophy. Mr. Stace was one of about fifty members attending the East-West Philosophers Conference at the University of Hawaii in the summer of 1959.Mysticism and Philosophy was written on a fellowship awarded to the author, over a period of four years, by the Bollingen Foundation. Mr. Stace is also the author of Time and Eternity, a philosophical study of religion; The Destiny of Western Man, for which he received a prize offered by the publishers, Reynal & Hitchcock, for a book on any subject written by a college professor; The Gate of Silence, a long poem; A C-^.tical History of Greek Philosophy; and other books.
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This is a wort; of crowning importance by the author of Time and Eternity, Religion and the Modern Mind and other books which have made philosophical subjects accessible to the general reader. W. T. Stace, Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton, here investigates the question: What bearing, if any, does what is called "mystical experience" have upon the more important problems of philosophy?
He begins with the undeniable fact that many such experiences — among people of various cultures and religions and widely separated in time and place — are genuine and important. He then asks whether these experiences throw any light on such problems as:
Whether there is in the universe any spiritual presence greater than man—-towards which the various religions of mankind have been groping; and if so, how is it related to man and to the universe in general.
Whether we can find in mysticism any illumination on the questions of the na-
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ture of the self, the philosophy of logic, the functions of language, the truth or untruth of human claims to immortality, and finally the nature and sources of moral obligation and the problems of ethics generally."
The publishers believe it is not too much to say that Mysticism and Philosophy will be recognized as a work of distinction and importance comparable to The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
ALSO BY W. T^ STAGE:
RELIGION AND THE MODERN MIND
"Here Professor Stace is trying to answer a question that troubles every thinking man: Is there any reasonable and significant place for religion in our modern scientific age? . . . Such reading should greatly aid in dispelling a lot of present stupid confusions, particularly concerning such notions as God, purpose, mechanical explanation, determinism, free will, et al. . No thoughtful modern man can afford not to read this book." —Paul Arthur Schilpp, Saturday Review
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