Jacques Maritain, in The Angelic Doctor (1930), emphasized the need for a " living Thomism" that "will enter into the life of the age and work for the good of the world;" a philosophy which passes on the stability of "spirituality and life," "nontemporal values; eternal acquisitions." As a celebrated disciple of St. Thomas Aquinas, Maritain ......
Essays Inspired by the Early Work of Jacques and Raissa Maritain
Both Jacques and Raissa Maritain produced large and diverse bodies of writing, and their creative lives spanned decades and encompassed the most turbulent periods of the twentieth century. Scholarly engagement with their work continues to reap new insights, and that includes engagement with the writings produced in the earlier portions of their ......
The meeting of Jacques Maritain and the avant-garde artist Jean Cocteauin the summer of 1925 produced two significant results: Cocteaureturned to his Catholic faith, and it led the poet and the philosopherto exchange letters reflecting on the relationship between art and faith.While Cocteau proclaimed that the spiritual nature of art orders man ......
Inspired by the Thomism of Jacques Maritain, this collection of essays explores how philosophy can redeem contemporary society from some of its defects and how contemporary philosophy itself can be redeemed through a revival of philosophical realism. In metaphysics, such realism emphasises the primacy of contemplation, especially the contemplation ......
Love and friendship are at the heart of human and divine life. Without reference to them, it is impossible to explain the human being. Yet these terms are irreducibly ambiguous, with multiple meanings for our lives -- from particular human relationships, to political communities, to one's relationship with God. This volume presents a broad ......
Reading the Cosmos continues and extends Jacques Maritain's spirited defence of natural philosophy as indispensable for an adequate account of the natural world. Drawing inspiration from such seminal works as Philosophy of Nature and Science and Wisdom, the essays in this volume span a wide range of issues of perennial interest to theologians, ......
How can Catholic philosophers confront the challenging intellectual questions of the twenty-first-century world? Among these questions are the relationship of philosophy to the spiritual renewal of the Church, the interplay of faith and reason, the role of metaphysics in philosophy, contemporary challenges to the family, the status of women, and ......
