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W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
1886–1967
A philosopher who moved from colonial civil service to the halls of Princeton, he became one of the 20th century’s best-known interpreters of mysticism and religious experience. His books explore how reason, ethics, and the spiritual life might fit together.
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A critical history of Greek philosophy
by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
About the author
Born in London on November 17, 1886, Walter Terence Stace studied at Trinity College, Dublin, then spent more than two decades in the Ceylon Civil Service before turning fully to academic philosophy. That unusual path gave his writing a practical, worldly tone even when he tackled large questions about truth, religion, and human experience.
From 1932 to 1955, he taught in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University. He wrote on Hegel, ethics, and epistemology, but he is especially remembered for his work on mysticism and the philosophy of religion, including Time and Eternity, Mysticism and Philosophy, and The Teachings of the Mystics.
Stace died on August 2, 1967, in Laguna Beach, California. Readers continue to return to him for his clear, accessible way of asking how spiritual experience can be taken seriously without giving up philosophical rigor.