Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Paul Weiss, Yale professor of philosophy, lec- turer, author, is a man concerned about man. Man and the Good Life. Man as a private being. Man as a public being. Man and Beauty. At the invitation of the philosophy department, Weiss, last year,s Aquinas lecturer, returned to Mar- quette October 14-19 as visiting professor for a series of lectures and discussions. His views, which ranged across the entire realm of philosophy, aroused more student enthusiasm and intellectual comment than had been evident on campus for some time. l Weiss' God is uthat being who preserves all the good there isf, Weiss insists that, taken separate- ly, the God seen through faith and the God of the philosopher are both incomplete pictures of the Whole. The religious and philosophic views of God must supplement one another. But, Weiss believes, God is contingent on other realities. He maintains that for God to be God, there must be realities beyond Him. 'cThere,s you, for instance. There,s mef he explained. The four modes of being in Weiss, metaphysics-actuality, existence, ideality, and God-are intermeshing states so dependent on each other that to separate them destroys the unity of reality. l No matter hovv immersed a man may be in the public World, there is something of him that re- mains over. He is and continues to be a private being no matter how public his existence and interests. His privacy can never be exhaustively expressed in public, if it could, he would be able to turn himself inside outf, said Weiss. Weiss believes that man must strike a balance between his private and his public self in the hope of attaining the Good Life. A man needs the pro- ducts of other menfs lives so that he may lead the Good Life himself. As a private being, each man must find his true 'ccenterv-philosophy, art, religion-and Work toward its development, Weiss said. As a public person, each man lives in the Worlds of politics, history, nature, and religion and must balance the claim each Mworldv makes to priority. Man can realize his right to possess the goods of 'cdifferent Worldsv by focusing attention on his one center and meshing this good with the treasury of goods achieved by men Who have found different centers for themselves. g'Whatever I achieve be- longs to one single Worldf, explained Weiss.

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The weekend closed with a spirited performance by the Chad Mitchell Trio, singing such campus favorites as Lizzie Borden, 'cAWay With Rum, and Blowin' in the Windf' Jim Collins, president of the Carnival Council, and Kathy O,Brien reigned as king and queen of the weekend festivities.

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