In 19801 published an introduction to and translation of a manifesto by
Jacques Maritain, "On the Common Good" (1934), which merits revisiting in view of next year's elections.
After presenting helpful introductions to modern conceptions of law and to modern Roman Catholicism, Teachings considers the contributions of seven influential figures from the twentieth century: Leo XIII,
Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray, John XXIII, Gustavo Gutierrez, Dorothy Day, and John Paul II.
Jacques Maritain, husband of Raissa, died in 1973, and Marthe Robin the stigmatic died only in 1981.
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Jacques Maritain, Distinguish to Unite or the Degrees of Knowledge, trans.
The relationship of art to life vexed all of them, and eventually they found clarity of vision and purpose in medieval Catholic thought and art as reinterpreted by the neo-Thomist philosophers
Jacques Maritain and Etienne Gilson.
The breathtaking casuistic distinctions developed by Catholics attempting to capture the riddle of free will and grace in Aristotelian-Thomist language do not seem convincing to me, and even
Jacques Maritain's attempt to resolve this problem toward the end of his long life smells too much of casuistry.