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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 · 1. Life. Jacques Maritain was born on November 18, 1882 in Paris. The son of Paul Maritain, a prominent lawyer, and Geneviève Favre, daughter of the French statesman, Jules Favre, Jacques Maritain studied at the Lycée Henri IV (1898–99) and at the Sorbonne, where he prepared a licence in philosophy (1900–01) and in the natural sciences (1901–02). He was initially attracted to the philosophy of Spinoza.
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.
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. 4. General Assessment. 1. Life.
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.
The Degrees of Knowledge is a 1932 book by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain, [1] in which the author adopts St. Thomas Aquinas’s view called critical realism and applies it to his own epistemological positions. [1]
Aug 26, 2020 · Ever since Will Herberg’s popular anthology Four Existentialist Theologians appeared in 1958, the English-speaking world has tended to regard Jacques Maritain as a Thomist with a pronounced existential orientation, or perhaps as an existentialist with a Thomist orientation (Herberg 1958, pp. 27–96). In that widely disseminated volume ...
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.
Oct 22, 2024 · French neo-Thomist philosopher. Born in Paris, a Protestant, Maritain was educated at the Sorbonne and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1906. After further study in Germany, where (among other pursuits) he studied biology under Hans Driesch (1867–1941), he was appointed in 1914 as professor of modern philosophy at the Institut Catholique, Paris.
