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Human Nature, Contemplation, and the Political Order
Essays Inspired by Jacques Maritain's Scholasticism and Politics
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
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In his 1940 publication, Scholasticism and Politics, Jacques Maritain asserts that ""the modern world has sought good things in bad ways; it has thus compromised the search for authentic human values, which men must save now by an intellectual grasp of a profounder truth, by a substantial recasting of humanism."" In the essays that follow, Maritain explores the cultural and philosophical dimensions of this claim and sketches an outline for addressing what he famously calls the ""crisis of modern times."" The answer is a new humanism that appropriates the important insights of modern thought, but which is also grounded in the classical tradition that reaches its full philosophical development in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. It is a humanism that acknowledges the dignity of both man’s body and his soul, and which does not close his soul off to the transcendent.The authors of Human Nature, Contemplation, and the Political Order: Essays Inspired by Jacques Maritain’s Scholasticism and Politics carry Maritain’s philosophical and cultural insights into the twenty-first century. They do so by exploring Maritain’s understanding of the human soul with particular emphasis upon Maritain’s extremely thoughtful critique of Freud. Others investigate the moral and political dimension of Maritain’s thought by bringing him into dialogue with modern figures as diverse as Niccolò Machiavelli, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Pope Benedict XVI. Still others develop the modern significance of and connection between Maritain’s humanism and the Thomistic identification of human happiness with contemplation.
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The essays in this volume commemorate the †70th anniversary of Jacques Maritain’s Pour la Justice, in which the French Thomist and future draftŸ-er of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights grappled with the moral, political, and religious challenges facing Europe in the aŸermath of World War II. During this time Maritain reflected on humanism, Christian philosophy, the relation between freedom, religion and politics, and increasingly, on education.Several scholars reflect on the historical impact of Maritain’s own writings during World War II, Vatican II, and the Spanish Civil war. In other sections, contemporary Thomists suggest ways a resurgent Thomism can engage with the pressing issues of our own day. Essays on Thomistic ethics address problems in bioethics, the philosophy of love, and the foundations of Natural Law, while others tackle perennial problems in metaphysics and epistemology, such as the problem of free will, subjectivity, and the role of creative intuition in aesthetics. Still other essays apply Maritain’s work on education to current challenges facing religious universities today.The contributors to this volume include: Noel Adams, Florian Michel, Sr. Anne Frances Ai Le, Brian Kemple, Stephen Chamberlain, Walter Schulz, Francisco Eduardo Plaza, James Jacobs, John Dunaway, Greg Kerr, Megan Furman, Karen Chan, Justin Gable, Federico Tedesco, Michael Torre, Richard Schenk, OP, and Gregory Reichberg.