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Under the Auspices of Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau
by Paul Weiss, Ph.D.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1963
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-13170
Copyright 1963 By the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau Marquette University
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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To Mortimer Adler
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Prefatory
The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose feast day is March 7. These lectures are called the Aquinas Lectures, and are customarily given on the second Sunday of March.
In 1963 the Aquinas Lecture "Religion and Art" was delivered on March 10 in the Peter A. Brooks Memorial Union of Marquette University by Dr. Paul Weiss, Sterling Professor of philosophy, Yale University.
Professor Weiss was born in New York City's lower East Side on May 19, 1901. Before he could graduate from high school, circumstances required that he earn his own living. Six years later he returned to the evening division of New York City College, then transferred to the regular college program and received his A.B. de-
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gree in 1927 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.A. degree from Harvard in 1928 and his Ph.D. in 1929. After a year as research fellow in philosophy in Germany and France, he taught at Harvard and then Bryn Mawr. In 1945 he was visiting professor at Yale and the following year became a permanent member of the faculty.
Professor Weiss has played an important role in promoting the exchange of philosophical ideas. He is the founder of The Metaphysical Society of America, and of the Philosophy Education Society, Inc.; founder and editor of the Review of Metaphysics; and a founding member of the Conference of Science, Philosophy and Religion. In addition, he has served on the Executive Committee of the American Philosophical Association and the Symbolic Logic Association; and on the Editorial Board of Science of Culture and Judaism; is a trustee of the American Association of Middle East Studies and is consultant for the Great Books Program, and for the Institute for Philosophical Re-
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search. He gave the William Powell Lectures at the University of Indiana in 1958.
His published works include: The Modes of Being (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958); Man's Freedom (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950); Reality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938; Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1949); Nature and Man (New York: Henry Holt, 1947); Our Public Life (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1959); The World of Art (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961); Nine Basic Arts (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961); History: Written and Lived (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962).
He is co-editor of the six-volume: The Collected Works of Charles Sanders Peirce; and co-author of Philosophical Essays of A. N. Whitehead; American Philosophy, Today and Tomorrow; Science, Philosophy and Religion; Approaches to World Peace; Freedom and Reason; Moral Principles of Action; Moments of Personal Discovery and others.
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To these books and many articles in learned journals Phi Sigma Tau has the pleasure of adding Religion and Art.
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Religion and Art
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All basic enterprises have at least seven important relations to one another. Religion and art are no exception. (a) They are independent, each providing an answer to man's basic need to be perfected. Each can have the other as a subdivision, to yield (b) sacramental works, art in the service of religion, and (c) secularized religion, religion as a subdivision of art. Each can also be completed by the other. Consecrated art is art completed by religion (d), whereas (e) liturgical art is religion completed by art. Finally, we have (f) religion as ceremonial, religion qualified by art, and (g) religious art, art religiously qualified. I will concentrate on the last of these, but some attention must be paid to the others.
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(a) The Claims of Religion and Art: Religious men, again and again, have yielded to the power of the state and the lures of other pursuits. But there have also been religious men who have resisted these. In every generation some men seem to maintain a firm faith in God, no matter what happens with nations or states, and no matter what promises are offered by inquiry, other men, or art. Alert to the fact that they occupy themselves with a being greater than any to be encountered elsewhere, they rightly insist on the fact that religion cannot, without mutilation, be subordinated to any other enterprise. They tend, in fact, to insist that other disciplines should be subordinated and guided by religion. Sometimes an attempt is made to bolster the insistence with the argument that religion is superior to other enterprises, because it is not only concerned with a superior object but also enables a man to achieve the highest possible good. Philosophers are sometimes admonished to deal
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