
Human Nature, Contemplation, and the Political Order
Essays Inspired by Jacques Maritain's Scholasticism and Politics
Herausgeber: Koritansky, Peter Paul
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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, b...
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.