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Weiss, Paul was born on May 19, 1901 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Emma (Rothschild) Weiss.
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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 proÂfessional athletes—and their sacrifices, defeats, and humiliaÂtions. And he delineates the stages the athlete must go through in his progress toward self-completion.
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This work and a previous one, The World of A rt, were originally planned as a single book. The generosity of Mr. Harold Feldman and Mr. John F. Molloy enabled me to send a draft to various friends for criticism. As a result of the suggestions of several readers they now appear as independent though related volumes. Both are in good part the product of an interest in the arts long ago awakened byE liseo Vivas, and encouraged, nourished, and enriched by Neil Welliver. It has been sustained by conversations with George Howe, King Lui Wu, Paul Rudolph, Peter Millard, Arthur Drexler, Erwin Hauer, Robert Engman, James Brooks, Charlotte Park, C. Marca-R elli, K. R. C. Greene, Howard Boatwright, Richard Sewall, Harry Berger, Cleanth Brooks, Janice Rule, Curt Conway, Kim Stanley, Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Alfred Ryder, John Gassner, Eliot Elisofon, Jonathan Weiss, Robert Thorn, David Slavitt, andS cottS ullivan. A draft of this work was criticized in detail byE llen Haring, Iredell Jenkins, K. R. C. Greene, Jonathan Weiss, andR ichard Sewall. In addition it has had the benefit of comments from John Gassner, Louis Z. Hammer, Dorothy Walsh, Robert Herbert, Vincent Scully, Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, Peter Millard, James Brooks, I. C. Lieb, V. C. Chappell, Richard Bernstein, Scott Sullivan, David Slavitt, Theodore Weiss, Henri Peyre, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, andR obert Lowell. I am most grateful to them; they have made it possible to improve the book immeasurably. I have tried to follow the lead of the criticisms which I have received. Divergent vocabularies, outlooks, and stresses, however, have often proved to be great obstacles in the way of a clear and common understanding. None of the foregoing critics should be held accountable for any of the blunders or blurs the work contains. I am glad that this book is being published byS outhern Illinois University Pres (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Paul Weiss systematically maps creativity in its many manifestationscreative ventures in the arts, in mathematics and the sciences, in moral development, in social movements, and in government. A truly creative work arises from a combination of factors. Weiss argues that among these factors are two kinds of ultimates, one of which he calls the Dunamis, an absolute ground of being of sufficient complexity to warrant an appendix of its own. The other ultimate is divided into five conditions (voluminous, rational, stratifying, affiliating, and coordinating), each of which is primarily operative upon one of the five kinds of creative ventures. Weiss traces the ways these ultimates are combined with the creator’s individual being and with the obdurate material at hand as the creator strives toward a creative ideal. The result is the rare, truly creative venture sustaining human existence.
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Book jacket/back: 'Being and Other Realities,' by our greatest living metaphysician, pushes Paul Weiss's philosophy to new subtlety. It moves on two fronts. On one, it further refines the categorial scheme Weiss has been developing over 50 years. On the other, it is a shining example of radical questioning and exploration. This is an important book, especially for philosophers like myself, who believe being is not another reality." --Robert C. Neville, Boston University, Author of Normative Cultures and The Truth of Broken Symbols
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Defining an "emphatic" as an intrusion that alters the import of what it intrudes on, Weiss sets the stage for an exquisitely systematic, speculative study of the major themes confronting modern metaphysics. The idea of an emphatic has its roots in Weiss's long-developed pluralistic ontology, with special focus on what we experience as an "emphasis." The most obvious examples are grammatical devices such as changed pitch in speech or exclamation and question marks in writing. Weiss also analyzes emphatics in etiquette, social status, nature, art, conventional behavior, encyclopedias, psychiatry, and religion. Brilliant in every respect, Emphatics rewrites Weiss's systematic ontology in new terms. Not only are the lineaments of the system reexamined, but this book floods the reader with new perspectives and insights on relationship, signs, truth, particularity, space-time causality, education, mind-body issues, Being and other ultimate philosophical categories, and good and evil. Weiss engages the various objections to his position in a series of question-and-answer epilogues at the end of each chapter that allow the reader to follow step-by-step a great philosophical mind at work. He takes his critics seriously, grapples with their objections, and answers them honestly. His discourse creatively revisits age-old questions and in reimagining new answers establishes the continuing relevance of philosophy as an academic discipline.
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An internationally renowned philosopher propounds a way to advance beyond appearance to ultimate realities and a final ideal. One of philosophy’s main functions is to arouse thought, to awaken and redirect. It asks others to think through, to assess, and at the same time to be flexible and steady. Author and reader must, despite the printed page, despite differences in age and experience, training and knowledge, philosophize together,” writes Paul Weiss in his brilliant new book. And this is exactly what the reader will find himself doing as the eminent speculative philosopher directs his attention to that which is beyond appearancebeyond daily living and, ultimately, beyond life itself. In this perhaps richest and finest of Mr. Weiss’s books, the average reader who daily confronts the various aspects of our complicated lives will find an enlivening answer to persisting fundamental questions. Mr. Weiss’s searching analysis of matter and his thought-provoking answers to questions raised provide a thoroughly enlightened examination of the realities of man’s inalienable rights, his identity over the course of a changing career, and his possible immortality.
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Weiss, Paul was born on May 19, 1901 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Emma (Rothschild) Weiss.
BSS, City College of New York, 1927; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1928; Doctor of Philosophy (Sears Travelling fellow), Harvard University, 1929; honorary degrees, Grinnell College, 1960; honorary degrees, Pace College, 1969; honorary degrees, Bellarmine College, 1973; honorary degrees, Haverford College, 1974; honorary degrees, Boston University, 1989.
Instructor, tutor philosophy Harvard University, also instructor, Radcliffe College, 1930-1931;
associate in philosophy, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1931-1933;
associate professor, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1933-1940;
professor, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1940-1946;
department chairman, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1944-1946;
Guggenheim fellow, 1938;
visiting professor, Yale University, 1945-1946;
professor philosophy, Yale University, 1946-1962;
Sterling professor philosophy, Yale University, 1962-1969;
Sterling professor emeritus, Yale University, since 1969;
fellow, Ezra Stiles College. Visiting professor philosophy Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1951. Luce-Rabinowitz grantee for study, Israel and India, 1954.
Lecturer Aspen Institute, 1952, Chancellor's Forum, U. Denver, 1952. Orde Wingate lecturer, 1954. Powell lecturer U. Indiana, 1958.
Gates lecturer Grinnell College, 1960. Matchette lecturer Purdue University, 1961, Wesleyan College, 1963. Aquinas lecturer Marquette U., 1963.
Townsend Harris medalist, 1963. Rhoades lecturer Haverford College, 1964. Phi Beta Kappa lecturer, 1968-1969.
Resident scholar State University New York, 1969, 70. Visiting professor U. Denver, spring 1969. Eliot lecturer Marquette U., 1970.
William De Vane medalist Yale, 1971. Aquinas lecturer St.Mary's, 1971. Medalist City College, 1973, Hofstra U., 1973.
B. Means lecturer Trinity College. Lecturer, Japan, 1981. Annual McDermott Lecturer U. Dallas, 1983.
Visiting Heffer professor Philosophy Catholic U. American, 1969-1991, 93-94.
(Defining an "emphatic" as an intrusion that alters the im...)
( Paul Weiss systematically maps creativity in its many m...)
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( In a wide-ranging study of unusual interest, Paul Weiss...)
( Book jacket/back: 'Being and Other Realities,' by our g...)
( An internationally renowned philosopher propounds a wa...)
(This work and a previous one, The World of A rt, were ori...)
(Book by Weiss PhD, Professor Paul)
(Book by Weiss, Paul)
(Book by Weiss, Paul)
Member Association for Symbolic Logic (councillor 1936), American Philosophical Association (co-president 1966), Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion (founding), Christian Science Peirce Society (founding, president), Metaphys. Society of America (founder, president 1951-1952, councillor 1953-1958), Philosophical Society for Study of Sport (co-founder, president 1973), American Friends Hebrew University, Philosophical Education Society (founder), Washington Philosophic Club (Christian Science Peirce award), European Society Culture, International Academy Philosophy of Art, American Association Middle East Studies, Aurelian Club, Elizabethan Club, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Victoria Brodkin, October 27, 1928 (deceased December 31, 1953). Children: Judith, Jonathan.
