Human Nature, Contemplation, and the Political Order: Essays Inspired by Jacques Maritain's Scholasticism and Politics

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982711956
• ISBN13: 9780982711958
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: American Maritain Association
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"