Jacques Maritain
Biographic Data
| ID | 305356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacques Maritain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacques |
| FAMILY NAME | Maritain |
| SIGNATURE | MARITAIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Les « deux Églises »
Eingegangene Bücher
Sur l'État, la patrie et la construction d'une Europe véritablement fédérale. Déclaration de quelques chrétiens
A Maritain Anthology On Art and Poetry
A Society Without Money
The attempts carried out in this direction by Fidel Castro (but badly thought out, as a matter of fact) have failed because of the totalitarian spirit which animated them and the particular circumstances involved (above all the general unproductivity of Cuba).| But I am more and more fascinated by the very idea of a society without money, and if, in spite of my lack of competence, I have let myself put into writing at the cost of a vast and fearf…
Sur la justice politique et le machiavélisme
The Education of Man
Moral Philosophy
On the Use of Philosophy
In this collection of three beautifully written essays, the distinguished philosopher Jacques Maritain presents his reflections on the role of philosophy in the life of man as a social being. In his concern for the social relevance of philosophy, Professor Maritain writes of the ways in which philosophy helps one to live. His essays are a dear and persuasive statement of why the world needs philosophers, and of how the pursuit of truth and intell…
Distinguish to Unite; or The Degrees of Knowledge
This work is Maritain's masterpiece. Published as Distinguer pour unir, ou Les degres du savoir in 1932, the book proposes a hierarchy of forms of knowledge that culminates in mystical experience and that wisdom which is a gift of the Holy Ghost. His inspiration is St Thomas Aquinas
The Unity of Science and Philosophy
Reflections on America
Offspring of the Vic
Originally published in 1958.The history of Morley College provides an illuminating case-history of the growth and spread of adult education in the second half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries. Morley College is unique in that it was one of the first of such institutions to proclaim and inculcate absolute sex and class equality. It has always been guided by democratic principles in the sense that the students have been…
Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism
The Social and Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain
An Essay in Christian Philosophy
Book Reviews Get access An Essay in Christian Philosophy. By Jacques Maritain. Translated by Fr. E. H. Flannery. (New York : Philosophical Library. 1955. Pp. xi + 116. Price $2.75). David Cairns David Cairns Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 25, October 1956, Pages 377–378, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216798 Published: 01 October 1956
Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism
A Faithful Friend
Ours was an old friendship: it was nearly thirty years ago that I met Waldemar Gurian for the first time in Bonn. At that time he was a brilliantly promising young man. He was expected to play an important role in the intellectual renovation which seemed to be underway in Germany. All that was stopped by the coming of the Nazis, which forced him to leave his country. Thanks to the facilities offered him by the University of Notre Dame, Waldemar G…
The Situation of Poetry
A Dedication to The Mother of Wisdom
Art and Scholasticism
Reflections on America
Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays
Three reformers
Integral Humanism
The Rights of Man and Natural Law
The End of Machiavellianism
My purpose is to consider Machiavellianism. Regarding Machiavelli himself, some preliminary observations seem necessary. Innumerable studies, some of them very good, have been dedicated to Machiavelli. Jean Bodin, in the XVIth Century, criticized The Prince in a profound and wise manner. Later on Frederick the Great of Prussia was to write a refutation of Machiavelli in order to exercise his own hypocrisy in a hyper-Machiavellian fashion, and to …
The Nuremberg Trials as Sources of Recent German Political and Historical Materials
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Integral Humanism and the Crisis of Modern Times
To Avoid misunderstanding, I should note at once that my point of view is here not that of the mere logic of ideas and doctrines, but that of the concrete logic of the events of history.From the first point of view, that of the mere logic of ideas and doctrines, it is evident that there are many possible positions other than the “pure” positions which I shall examine. One might ask theoretically and in the abstract, what value these various posit…
The Person and the Common Good
Among the truths of which contemporary thought stands in particular need and from which it could draw substantial profiit, is the doctrine of the distinction between individuality and personality. The essential importance of this distinction is revealed in the principles of St. Thomas. Unfortunately, a right understanding of it is difficult to achieve and requires an exercise of metaphysical insight to which the contemporary mind is hardly accust…
Distinguish to Unite; or The Degrees of Knowledge
This work is Maritain's masterpiece. Published as Distinguer pour unir, ou Les degres du savoir in 1932, the book proposes a hierarchy of forms of knowledge that culminates in mystical experience and that wisdom which is a gift of the Holy Ghost. His inspiration is St Thomas Aquinas
Scholasticism and Politics
Religion and Politics in France
On the Meaning of Contemporary Atheism
I Should like to consider in this essay one particular aspect of the present spiritual crisis—namely, contemporary atheism and its inner meaning, Such a topic, the meaning of contemporary atheism, involves very deep and intricate problems. I do not pretend to dogmatize about them; the views that I shall offer are somewhat tentative views, which originate in a desire to look for the hidden spiritual significance of the present agony of the world.I…
The Immortality of Man
Let us think of the human being, not in an abstract and general way, but in the most concrete possible, the most personal fashion. Let us think of this certain old man we have known for years in the country, —this old farmer with his wrinkled face, his keen eyes which have beheld so many harvests and so many earthly horizons, his long habits of patience and suffering, courage, poverty and noble labor, a man perhaps like those parents of a great l…
The Catholic Church and Social Progress
Catholic Thought and its Mission
Le Songe de Descartes
Art and Scholasticism
Wisdom Into Knowledge
Our Western civilization can legitimately reflect that it has bestowed on the rest of mankind one or two valuable treasures in the domain of the things of the spirit. One such treasure is the unspoiled instinct for speculative truth. Greek philosophy, and Aristotle, first enabled us to realize the absolute value of wholehearted detachment from affective inclinations, and of chaste, severe, pure science, whose only function and purpose is the disc…
Science et Sagesse
Right" and "Left
We Christians of 1937 are the spectators of a terrible drama, a drama which confronts our consciences with agonizing problems. This drama is the disastrous struggle for power between two rival complex ideologies which have come to be known as "Right" and "Left." Already this conflict is sapping the life-blood of Spain; already it is breeding rancour and hatred of brother for brother throughout the civilized world, and threatens the very foundatio…
Men and Morals
It is very gratifying to me to have the opportunity to express the good things I think of Father Gerald Vann's recent book, Morals Makyth Man. A work such as this delights the mind with a "rejoicing in the truth" which is indeed characteristically thomist: a joy in fresh Air and Light. In this book we find, combined with constant care for doctrinal accuracy and for fidelity to the established principles received from tradition, that reverence for…
The Degrees of Knowledge
Integral Humanism and the Crisis of Modern Times
To Avoid misunderstanding, I should note at once that my point of view is here not that of the mere logic of ideas and doctrines, but that of the concrete logic of the events of history.From the first point of view, that of the mere logic of ideas and doctrines, it is evident that there are many possible positions other than the “pure” positions which I shall examine. One might ask theoretically and in the abstract, what value these various posit…
The Catholic Church and Social Progress
Religion and the Modern World
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Problems for Thomists. The Problem of Species
The Immortality of Man
Let us think of the human being, not in an abstract and general way, but in the most concrete possible, the most personal fashion. Let us think of this certain old man we have known for years in the country, —this old farmer with his wrinkled face, his keen eyes which have beheld so many harvests and so many earthly horizons, his long habits of patience and suffering, courage, poverty and noble labor, a man perhaps like those parents of a great l…
Scholasticism and Politics
The Achievement of Co-Operation among Men of Different Creeds
Le crépuscule de la civilisation
Religion and Politics in France
The End of Machiavellianism
My purpose is to consider Machiavellianism. Regarding Machiavelli himself, some preliminary observations seem necessary. Innumerable studies, some of them very good, have been dedicated to Machiavelli. Jean Bodin, in the XVIth Century, criticized The Prince in a profound and wise manner. Later on Frederick the Great of Prussia was to write a refutation of Machiavelli in order to exercise his own hypocrisy in a hyper-Machiavellian fashion, and to …
Ransoming the Time
The Rights of Man and Natural Law
A Reply to Professor Mercier
Poetic Experience
The subject I am discussing here deals with a very peculiar kind of knowledge — a kind of knowledge whose means is not concepts and reasoning, but affective inclination or affinity, and which is often disregarded by philosophers interested only in the rational kind of knowing. Henri Bergson liked to quote a sentence he found in the letters of a French philosopher; the sentence was as follows: “I have suffered from this friend enough to know him.”…
Opinions of a French Philosopher
The Survival of Western Culture
The Assault on Civilization by Racist Law
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