Jacques Maritain

• Eschatology According to Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain, probably the best-known Catholic philosopher ofthe 20th century, has written on a wide variety of topics: religion, theology, philos...

• New Oxford Review
• Vol. 75 Nbr. 10, November 2008

• Jacques Maritain and Vatican Council II.

When, many years ago, I first read Jacques Maritain's The Peasant of the Garonne, I shared the general view that it was little more than the reactiona...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2003, August 2003

• Three concepts of dignity in constitutional law.

...Jacques Maritain, a French Catholic philosopher, was a pri...

• Notre Dame Law Review
• Vol. 86 Nbr. 1, February 2011

• Jacques and Raissa Maritain.

Jacques and Raissa Maritain by JEAN-LUC BARRE Notre Dame University Press, 528 pages, $50 First published ten years ago, this was the first true bio...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2006, January 2006

• Modernity & Belief

It traces the passage from the pervasive religiosity of medieval Christendom to that point when a "self-sufficient or exclusive humanism"-an outlook with no final goals or allegiances beyond human flourishing-became, for the first time in human history, widely available to masses of people. Yet because this chapter features, in passing or at length, so many giants of religious sensibility and spirituality-Dostoyevsky, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, T. S. Eliot, Jacques Maritain, Charles Péguy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Charles de Foucauld, Thérèse de Lisieux-it seems to be more about the exertions of religious virtuosi than about the ordinary work of institutional leadership.

• Commonweal
• August 27, 2009

• This Week in History - Top Thomist Philosopher Born in Paris

Jacques Maritain, thought by some to be the most important modern St. Thomas Aquinas expert, was born on this date in 1882 in Paris. A few facts: While studying at the Sorbonne in 1901, young Maritain, raised Protestant, met Raissa Oumansoff, a fellow student, who was Russian and Jewish.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• November 19, 2007

• Jacques Maritain Integral Humanism (1936).

For many of us coming of age in the early 1960s, our first serious exposure to the notion that "public life is not the first thing"--but that there do...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2000, June 2000

• Absolute Values

I wish to commend President Lech Kaczynski of Poland for refusing to sign the Lisbon Treaty ("Polish president deals blow to EU treaty" (World, Wednesday). Mr. Kaczynski's position reflects the true heart and soul of a nation in touch with its democratic roots and moral foundation. The European Union has broken good faith with organized religion by deliberately failing to mention Europe's Christian roots and identity in its constitution. The road has now been paved for a democratic government that will authorize anything that any group in society asks for, as long as the group phrases the request in the language of "rights." Ultimately this will lead to anarchy. Philosopher Jacques Maritain wrote that democracy emerged in human history as a temporal expression of evangelical inspiration...

• The Washington Times
• July 06, 2008

• The Plurality of Forms: Now and Then

...The French Thomist Jacques Maritain wrote, "[W]e distinguish in order to unit...

• Review of Metaphysics, The
• Vol. 62 Nbr. 1, September 2008

• Human Dignity, Human Rights.

The circumstances under which the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written during the 1940s are described, focusing on efforts to negotiate differences among democratic and communist states, and among different religions. Topics include the moral impact of World War II, the competing interests of defending the individual and the state, and the contributions of philosopher Jacques Maritain.

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 1999, October 1999