Scholasticism and Politics

by Jacques Maritain

Overview

Scholasticism and Politics, first published in 1940, is a collection of nine lectures Maritain delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. Maritain championed the cause of what he called personalist democracy—a regime committed to popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, limited government, and individual freedom. He believed a personalist democracy offered the modern world the possibility of a political order most in keeping with the demands of human dignity, Christian values, and the common good.

Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) was a French political thinker and philosopher and is widely recognized as one of the most influential interpreters of Thomistic thought to modern culture.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614872405
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/24/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	456 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword  vii

I. Integral Humanism and the Crisis of Modern Times  1

II. Science and Philosophy  25

III. The Human Person and Society  56

IV. Democracy and Authority  89

V. The Thomist Idea of Freedom  118

VI. Freudianism and Psychoanalysis  144

VII. Action and Contemplation  170

VIII. Catholic Action and Political Action  194

IX. Christianity and Earthly Civilizations  225

Editorial Reviews

Book New, Inc.
December 2011

This volume contains nine lectures, originally delivered in 1938, by French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), presenting the view of his democratic brand of Thomistic Scholasticism on the nature of human political order to audiences in the United States. The lectures reflect on the nature of the human person, the deficiencies of materialistic theories of humanity (particularly as derived from "false interpretation of Freud's theories"), and the Thomist perspective on democracy and the political landscape of the inter-war period.

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