Art and Scholasticism and the Frontiers of Poetry

Jacques Maritain

Arts & Photography

University of Notre Dame Press

The First American edition of a British best-seller In The Principle of Duty

The Degrees of Knowledge (The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, Vol. 7)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Saint Thomas and the Problem of Evil: Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University

Marquette University Press

The description for this book, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, will be forthcoming.

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry (Cloth) (Bollingen series XXXV.1)

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton University Press

Jacques Maritain's An Introduction to Philosophy was first published in 1931. Since then, this book has stood the test of time as a clear guide to what philosophy is and how to philosophize. Inspired by the Thomistic Revival called for by Leo XIII, Maritain relies heavily on Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas to shape a philosophy that, far from sectarian theology in disguise, is driven by reason and engages the modern world. Re-released as part of the Sheed &amp; Ward Classic series, An Introduction to Philosophy is sure to enliven the minds of students and general readers for years to come. From the new introduction by Ralph McInerny: You are about to read a magnificent introduction not only to a kind of philosophy but to philosophizing itself. Jacques Maritain was a relatively young man when he wrote this book, but his effort is one that attracts any philosopher more and more as he grows older. However odd and unusual what he says becomes, the philosopher yearns to show how even the most abstruse claims can be put into relation with what the reader already knows. That, in its essence, is what teaching is. In this book, the reader will find a wise and certain guide into philosophizing as such. And, in the end, he will find that what he reads is really only a refinement and development of what he and everybody else already knew.

An Introduction to Philosophy (Sheed & Ward Classic) (A Sheed & Ward Classic)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

"Of time-transcending value, this book is probably the most succinct and clearest statement of Thomistic political theory available to the English-language reader. Written during his exile from war-torn Europe, Man and the State is the fruit of Maritain's considerable learning as well as his reflections on his positive American experience and on the failure of regimes he closely encountered on the Continent."―Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America 
"The lectures that were the basis for Man and the State were delivered at the University of Chicago at a time when Maritain was still in the first enthusiasm of his participation in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He devotes particular attention to the concept of rights, since, historically, rights theories were fashioned to supplant the natural law theory to which Maritain as a Thomist gives his allegiance. Maritain provides an ingenious and profound theory as to how natural law and natural rights can be complementary. For this reason alone it remains a fundamental contribution to political philosophy, but it is filled with other gems as well. Was Maritain too optimistic in his appraisal of modernity? Or have we unjustly lost the optimism that was his? Man and the State is an invitation to rethink the way we pose the basic questions of political philosophy."―Ralph McInerny, Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), distinguished French Catholic philosopher and writer, was the author of more than fifty books. A preeminent interpreter of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, Maritain was a professor of philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He served as French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945 to 1948.
 CONTENTS
 1. The People and the State
 2. The Concept of Sovereignty
 3. The Problem of Means
 4. The Rights of Man
 5. The Democratic Charter
 6. Church and State
 7. The Problem of World Government

Man and the State (Not In A Series)

The Catholic University of America Press

Three Reformers: Luther, Descartes, Rousseau

Apollo Editions

Integral Humanism: Temporal and Spiritual Problems of a New Christendom

Charles Scribner`s Sons

Can there be universal moral principles in a culturally and religiously diverse world? Are such principles provided by a theory of natural law? Jacques response to both questions is "yes".
These essays, selected from the writings of one of the most influential philosophers of the past hundred years, provide a clear statement of Maritain's theory of natural law and natural rights. Maritain's ethics and political philosophy occupies a middle ground between the extremes of individualism and collectivism. Written during a period when cultural diversity and pluralism were beginning to have an impact on ethics and politics, these essays provide a defense of natural law and natural right that continues to be timely.
The first essay introduces Maritain's theory of connatural knowledge -- knowledge by inclination -- that lies at the basis of his distinctive views on moral philosophy, aesthetics, and mystical belief. The second essay gives Maritain's principal metaphysical arguments for natural law as well as his account of how that law can be naturally known and universally held.
The third essay in this collection explains the roots of the natural law and shows how it provides a rational foundation for other kinds of law and for human rights. In the fourth essay, reflecting his personalism and integral humanism, Maritain indicates how he extends his understanding of human rights to include the rights of the civic and of the social or working person.

Natural Law: Reflections On Theory & Practice

St. Augustines Press

La Salette

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