Freedom in the Modern World:
Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon Mortimer J. Adler

Michael D. Torre, Editor

Book Overview

These essays examine the full range of human freedom—both freedom of choice and political freedom. Much of the discussion centres on The Idea of Freedom by Adler, and the volume concludes with two essays in metaphysics.

Contents

  1. Michael D. Torre, “Reading Between the Lines”

  2. Donald A. Gallagher, “Recollections of Three Thinkers: Adler, Simon and Maritain”

  3. Mortimer J. Adler, “Great Books, Democracy, and Truth”

  4. Desmond J. Fitzgerald, “Adler's The Idea of Freedom”

  5. Otto Bird, “A Dialectical Version of Philosophical Discussion”

  6. Ralph McInerny, “Adler on Freedom”

  7. John Van Doren, “Mr. Adler and Matthew Arnold”

  8. George Anastaplo, “Democracy and Philosophy: On Yves R. Simon and Mortimer J. Adler”

  9. Catherine Green, “Freedom and Determination: An Examination of Yves R. Simon's Ontology of Freedom”

  10. S. Iniobong Udoidem, “Metaphysical Foundations of Freedom in the Social and Political Thought of Yves R. Simon”

  11. Robert J. Mulvaney, “Freedom and Practical Rationality in the Thought of Yves R. Simon”

  12. Marianne Mahoney, “Prudence as the Cornerstone of the Contemporary Thomistic Philosophy of Freedom”

  13. David T. Koyzis, “Yves R. Simon's Contribution to a Structural Political Pluralism”

  14. Ralph Nelson, “Freedom and Economic Organization in a Democracy”

  15. John A. Gueguen, “Parallels on Work, Theory and Practice in Yves R. Simon and John Paul II”

  16. John Hellman, “Maritain, Simon, and Vichy's Elite Schools”

  17. Robert Royal, “Creative Intuition, Great Books and Freedom of Intellect”

  18. Michael Novak, “The Philosophical Meaning of American Civilization in World History”

  19. Matthew J. Mancini, “Nominalism, Usury, and Bourgeois Man”

  20. Joseph J. Califano, “Modernization of the Law of the Prise de Conscience”

  21. John P. Hittinger, “Approaches to Democratic Equality: Maritain, Simon, and Kolnai”

  22. Raymond Dennehy, “Being is Better Than Freedom”

  23. Michael D. Torre, “The Freedoms of Man and Their Relation to God”