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Integral Humanism
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By Jacques Maritain
“Monstrous energies,” Jacques Maritain sharply observes, have ravaged the modern world in its descent from the Renaissance and the Reformation. Error and truth have become strangely entangled, each confusing or malforming the other into a state in which “truths lie and lies speak the truth.” A boldly ambitious attempt to purify “these unnatural and deadly products, and to save the truths that they distort,” Integral Humanism is both diagnosis of and remedy for the relationship between religion and culture, outlining the concrete historical ideal suitable to a new Christian civilization. After surveying humanism’s many historical forms—medieval, classical, anthropocentric, atheistic—and the myriad merits and demerits of each, Maritain proposes the model for a “new Christendom,” whose principles come from the clear and creative genius of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Published first in English in 1936 as True Humanism, and in revised translation in 1968 as Integral Humanism, Maritain’s act of “practical philosophy” ranks among the most influential works of twentieth-century Catholic social thought and is a dynamic expression of “true” or “integral” humanism as that which strives to uphold man, individually and communally, in relation to God.
Man is not ordained to the body politic, according to all that he is and has… But all that man is, and can, and has, must be referred to God… (St. Thomas Aquinas)
A humanism which excludes God is an inhuman humanism. (Pope Benedict XVI)
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) was perhaps the greatest Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century. A convert, along with his wife Raïssa, from agnosticism to Catholicism, Maritain wrote extensively on metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of history—all with the guiding inspiration of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Paperback: 300pp.
ISBN: 978-1685953485
Product Details
By Jacques Maritain
“Monstrous energies,” Jacques Maritain sharply observes, have ravaged the modern world in its descent from the Renaissance and the Reformation. Error and truth have become strangely entangled, each confusing or malforming the other into a state in which “truths lie and lies speak the truth.” A boldly ambitious attempt to purify “these unnatural and deadly products, and to save the truths that they distort,” Integral Humanism is both diagnosis of and remedy for the relationship between religion and culture, outlining the concrete historical ideal suitable to a new Christian civilization. After surveying humanism’s many historical forms—medieval, classical, anthropocentric, atheistic—and the myriad merits and demerits of each, Maritain proposes the model for a “new Christendom,” whose principles come from the clear and creative genius of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Published first in English in 1936 as True Humanism, and in revised translation in 1968 as Integral Humanism, Maritain’s act of “practical philosophy” ranks among the most influential works of twentieth-century Catholic social thought and is a dynamic expression of “true” or “integral” humanism as that which strives to uphold man, individually and communally, in relation to God.
Man is not ordained to the body politic, according to all that he is and has… But all that man is, and can, and has, must be referred to God… (St. Thomas Aquinas)
A humanism which excludes God is an inhuman humanism. (Pope Benedict XVI)
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) was perhaps the greatest Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century. A convert, along with his wife Raïssa, from agnosticism to Catholicism, Maritain wrote extensively on metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of history—all with the guiding inspiration of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Paperback: 300pp.
ISBN: 978-1685953485
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