Cardondale 1958 Southern Illinois Uniersity. Edition limited to 500 copies. Signed and numbered by the author. 2 volumes. A major work of America's leading systematic philosopher, Modes of Being, attempts to do for the 20th century what Aristotle, Spinoza, Locke and Hegel did for their times. 8vo., 617pp., index, hardcovers. Mint in mint box sealed in publisher's airtight plastic wrap. As new. Excellent gift!

Modes of Being

Politics & Social Sciences

Weiss PhD, Professor Paul

Philosophy

Southern Illinois University Press

The God We Seek

The majortopic of Professor Weiss’s present work is the experience of and concern with Godin privacy and in community. His purpose is to reveal the primary nuances and distinctions essential to an adequate grasp of the nature of religion, and he seeks to isolate the pure, undistorted relation men have to God. The God we seek is thus, in Mr. Weiss’s viewpoint, no distillate, no abstract desiccated element but something at least as rich and as concrete as the specialized forms of experience and concerns exhibited in particular religionsbut without their bias.
Presupposing only those rudimentary experiences which are shared by everyone, Mr. Weiss focuses on that pure, rich, concrete relation which connects men and God, a relation which is diversely ritualized and specialized by the various religions.” Mr. Weiss makes evident that there are many ways in which men make contact with God, apart from special revelations, messages, or miracles.” God, he shows, is enjoyed in dedicated communities, is reached through the fissures of experience, and is present in sacred objects and in service.
Written in Professor Weiss’s usual incisive, clear style and addressed to the general reader as well as to the theologian, minister, and philosopher, the work as a whole is challenging and highly quotable in its observations. The virtues and limitations of the different religions, the nature of faith, prayer and worship, mysticism and religious language are some of the topics dealt with in a fresh and illuminating spirit. Mr. Weiss’s discussion of religious history is particularly noteworthy for sharply marking out an area that is neglected in most modern religious and historical studies.
An independent work, The God We Seek serves also as the capstone of Paul Weiss’s entire philosophic system: a philosophic system dealing with the whole of being and knowledge, both in a highly abstract form (The Modes of Being), and in concrete, specialized guises (The World of Art, Nine Basic Arts, History: Written and Lived).His intellectual diary, Philosophy in Process,is now appearing in a series of twelve fascicles, published at intervals of three months.

Nature and Man

Nine Basic Arts

Arts & Photography

Reality

The author presents a humane and hopeful philosophy of education: "Students can be helped through education to make use of their creative powers."

The Making of Men

Modes of Being, Single Volume

Sport: A Philosophical Inquiry

In a wide-ranging study of unusual interest, Paul Weiss, Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, applies the principles and methods of philosophy to athletics. Every culture, he notes, has games of some kind; few activities seem to interest both children and young men as much as sports do; and few attract so many spectators, rich and poor. Yet none of the great philosophers, claiming to take all knowledge and being as their province, have made more than a passing reference to sport, in part, Professor Weiss suggests, because they thought that what pleased the vulgar was not worth sustained study by the leisured. This seminal book breaks new ground and explores new paths: psychological and sociological forms of human behavior exhibited in games; the physiology of athletics, and the efforts of training and conditioning; and the motivation of athleticsthe rhythm and aims of contests and games, and the meaning of team play. More importantly, however, Professor Weiss’s unique contributions lie in his discussions of the distinct contributions that sport makes to civilization. Professor Weiss discusses at length such topics as the Olympic Games and men and women as amateur and pro­fessional athletesand their sacrifices, defeats, and humilia­tions. And he delineates the stages the athlete must go through in his progress toward self-completion.

In this fifth volume of Philosophy in Process Paul Weiss presses further his search for breakthroughs in insight,” as his reflections take him deeper into a consideration of the full nature of actualities, the problem of death, an analysis of logic, and a consideration of a theory of the future. Like its predecessors in the series, the present volume consists of journal entries which, in this instance, cover the months from September 1965 through August 1968, a period which saw published Mr. Weiss’s The Making of Men, as well as volumes 3 and 4 of Philosophy in Process, and the writing and preparation for publication of Sport: A Philosophic Inquiry. These and other books of Mr. Weiss are discussed by him in his journals. Volume 5 is especially rich in providing review of and reflection on his own work.

Philosophy in Process, Volume 5: Sept. 3, 1965 - Aug. 27, 1968

In a wide-ranging study of unusual interest, Paul Weiss, Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, applies the principles and methods of philosophy to athletics. Every culture, he notes, has games of some kind; few activities seem to interest both children and young men as much as sports do; and few attract so many spectators, rich and poor. Yet none of the great philosophers, claiming to take all knowledge and being as their province, have made more than a passing reference to sport, in part, Professor Weiss suggests, because they thought that what pleased the vulgar was not worth sustained study by the leisured.
This seminal book breaks new ground and explores new paths: psychological and sociological forms of human behavior exhibited in games; the physiology of athletics, and the efforts of training and conditioning; and the motivation of athleticsthe rhythm and aims of contests and games, and the meaning of team play. More importantly, however, Professor Weiss’s unique contributions lie in his discussions of the distinct contributions that sport makes to civilization.
Professor Weiss discusses at length such topics as the Olympic Games and men and women as amateur and professional athletesand their sacrifices, defeats, and humiliations. And he delineates the stages the athlete must go through in his progress toward self-completion.

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Modes of Being

The God We Seek

Nature and Man

Nine Basic Arts

Reality

The Making of Men

Modes of Being, Single Volume

Sport: A Philosophical Inquiry

Philosophy in Process, Volume 5: Sept. 3, 1965 - Aug. 27, 1968

Sport: A Philosophical Inquiry