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Jacques Maritain ( French: [ʒak maʁitɛ̃]; 18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he was agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906.
Dec 5, 1997 · Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), French philosopher and political thinker, was one of the principal exponents of Thomism in the twentieth century and an influential interpreter of the thought of St Thomas Aquinas. 1. Life. 2. General Background. 3. Principal Contributions. 3.1 Metaphysics. 3.2 Epistemology. 3.3 Philosophy of Nature.
Jacques Maritain (born Nov. 18, 1882, Paris—died April 28, 1973, Toulouse, Fr.) was a Roman Catholic philosopher, respected both for his interpretation of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and for his own Thomist philosophy.
Nov 15, 2023 · Jacques Maritain was born to Geneviève Favre and Paul Maritain on November 18, 1882, on the rue Moncey in northwest Paris. Through his mother, he belonged to the distinguished Favre family, which counts among its members St. Peter Faber (Pierre Favre), co-founder of the Society of Jesus alongside Sts.
Dec 5, 1997 · Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), French philosopher and political thinker, was one of the principal exponents of Thomism in the twentieth century and an influential interpreter of the thought of St Thomas Aquinas. 1. Life. 2. General Background. 3. Principal Contributions. 3.1 Metaphysics. 3.2 Epistemology. 3.3 Philosophy of Nature.
May 14, 2018 · Jacques Maritain. The French Roman Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was the leading figure in the 20th-century renascence of Thomism. Jacques Maritain was born in Paris on Nov. 18, 1882.
(1882–1973) French neo-Thomist philosopher. Born in Paris, a Protestant, Maritain was educated at the Sorbonne and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1906.
Jacques Maritain, on the other hand, although a layman of independent mind, was a convinced Thomist in the Dominican tradition of John of St. Thomas. Unlike Rahner and von Balthasar, he deliberately restricted his work as a Christian thinker to the role of the Christian philosopher. MARITAIN'S-CONTRIBUTION TO CATHOLIC THOUGHT.
Maritain, Jacques (1882-1973), French philosopher and man of letters, was a professor of philosophy in the University from 1948 to 1952 and continued to make his home in Princeton until 1960.
Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he was agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive Thomas Aquinas for modern times, and was influential in the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
