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Walter Terence Stace war ein britischer Beamter, Erzieher und Philosoph, der Werke über Hegel und den Mystizismus verfasste.

Walter Terence Stace studierte am Bath College, am Fettes College in Edinburgh und am Trinity College in Dublin. Von 1910 bis 1932 war er als britischer Beamter und Richter in Ceylon tätig. Dort beschäftigte er sich auch mit Hinduismus und Buddhismus. Von 1932 bis 1955 lehrte er Philosophie an der Princeton University. In seinen Schriften versuchte er Naturalismus mit religiöser Erfahrung zu versöhnen.

1951 wurde er in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt. Wikipedia

✵ 17. November 1886 – 2. August 1967

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“It is only by intuition that the infinite can be apprehended. But why is this? Why cannot the infinite be apprehended by concepts? To see this we must understand that the word "infinite," in the religious sense, has nothing at all to do with that sense of the word in which it is applied to space, time, and the number series. We may call this latter the mathematical infinite to distinguish it from the religious infinite. And it is the confusion between these two which misled us into the false trail of supposing that the infinity of God's mind refers to the amount of His knowledge and that the finitude of man's mind refers to his ignorance. The religious infinite, or in other words the infinity of God, means that than 'which there is no other. In this sense neither space nor time could be infinite, since space is an "other" to time, and time is an "other" to space.”

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p. 46-47.

“Thus we see that mysticism naturally, though not necessarily, becomes intimately associated with whatever is the religion of the culture in which it appears.”

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p. 25.

“And we think that this ultimate blessedness differs only in degree from the happy and joyful experiences of our lives. Whereas the truth is that it differs in kind. The joys, not only of the earth, but of any conceivable heaven - which we can conceive only as some happy and fortunate prolongation of our lives in time - are not of the same order as that ultimate blessedness.”

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p. 7.

“Religion can probably out live any scientific discoveries which could be made. It can accommodate itself to them. The root cause of the decay of faith has not been any particular discovery of science, but rather the general spirit of science and certain basic assumptions upon which modern science, from the seventeenth century onwards, has proceeded.”

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“People are often mistaken about what is good for the health of their bodies. That is why we have doctors. And people are just as likely to be mistaken about what will be good for the happiness of their souls. That is why we have moralists.”

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“It is certainly the case that there can exist an atheistic mysticism, a mystical experience naked and not clothed in any religious garb.”

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p. 24.

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