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3 days ago · Jacques Maritain was the foremost proponent of Thomism in the 20th century. For him, Aquinas was not just another interesting thinker, but “the thinker,” just as Aquinas regarded Aristotle as “the Philosopher,” “St. Paul as “the Apostle,” and Moses Maimonides as “the Rabbi.”
1 day ago · See Jacques Maritain, Humanisme integral (1936; repr., Paris: Les Edicions du Cerf, Collection Classiques du Christianisme, 2006). 9. Alberto Masferrer , El minimum vital: Su definición y alcance (Guatemala City: Talleres de Diario de Central America, 1929) .
3 days ago · Natural law. Natural law [1] ( Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a close observation of natural order and human nature, from which values, thought by the proponents of this concept to be intrinsic to human nature, can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacted laws of a state or ...
5 days ago · Maritain’s insights into Thomas were especially profound: the central importance of the controversy of the 1940s was the Christian understanding of the human person and its purpose in life. “Each human”, writes Novak, “is ordered to union with [God], fulfilling thereby the deepest quest for his or her own being…[T]his communion…is the final purpose of all humans together” ( Novak 1989, p. 30 ).
1 day ago · Spiritual direction, at its best, can bring grace and friendship together. And this happy consequence, by way of easy transition, brings to mind Raïssa Maritain’s classic memoirs Adventures in Grace and We Have Been Friends Together (1942, 1945). Today her reflections often appear in Magnificat.
3 days ago · He also recalled that the only time he had heard the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) tell a joke was in regard to T.S. Eliot: “Eliot exhausted his capacity for conversion (to ...
1 day ago · His debunking of Claude Simon and of “post-modernist” critics, however, seems a waste of time and energy. As the Chinese proverb—invented by Jacques Maritain—says: “Never take stupidity too much in earnest.” (With the exception of three American scholars and seven Swedish academicians, who ever read Simon?
