Description
Scholasticism and Politics, first published in 1940, is a collection of nine lectures Maritain delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. Maritain championed the cause of what he called personalist democracy--a regime committed to popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, limited government, and individual freedom. He believed a personalist democracy offered the modern world the possibility of a political order most in keeping with the demands of human dignity, Christian values, and the common good.
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a French political thinker and philosopher and is widely recognized as one of the most influential interpreters of Thomistic thought to modern culture.
Author: Jacques Maritain
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Published: 10/24/2011
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780865978287
ISBN10: 086597828X
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- Philosophy | Movements | General
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern