Human Nature, Contemplation, and the Political Order:
Essays Inspired by Jacques Maritain's Scholasticism and Politics
Edited by Peter Karl Koritansky
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 what he famously calls the "crisis of modern times." The answer is a new humanism that appropriates the important insights of modern thought, but which is also grounded in the classical tradition that reaches its full philosophical development in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. It is a humanism that acknowledges the dignity of both man's body and his soul, and which does not close his soul off to the transcendent.
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Contents
Peter Paul Koritansky, “Introduction”
Michael D. Torre, “Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon on Freedom of Choice”
John J. Conley, “Freud as Political Adversarius”
Stephen Chamberlain, “Aquinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Internal Sense Faculties”
Bernadette E. O'Connor, “Freudian and Maritainian Theories of Sublimation and Their Ontological Bases”
Raymond Hain, “Individuality and Personality in Maritain and Classical Hindu Philosophy”
Federico Tedesco, “From Maritain to Aquinas: Beyond the Polarity between Individual and Person”
Terry Hall, “Dirty Hands in Politics? Maritain's Answer to Machiavelli”
Peter Pagan Aguiar, “End of Democracy: Authority or Freedom from Truth?”
Denis A. Scrandis, “Maritain and Ratzinger on the Crisis of Modern Times”
Cornelia A. Tsakiridou, “Perceptions of Islam: Pope Benedict XVI and Jacques Maritain”
Jonathan J. Sanford, “Maritain, Anscombe, and Contemporary Virtue Ethics”
Anne M. Wiles, “Habit, Natural Law, and Natural Rights”
Eric Manchester, “Beatitude as the Foundation of Freedom: Re-Reading the First Amendment in Light of Maritain”
Heather M. Erb, “Mountain and the Valley: Medieval Orderings of Contemplation and Action”
Michael Krom, “Contemplation in America? Maritainian Reflections on Life in the New World”
James Hanink, “Contemplation, Martyrdom, and the Principle of Gratuitousness”
Anne Frances Ai, “Comtemplata aliis tradere: The Universal Call to Contemplation and Its Implications”