Maritain and America
By: edited by Christopher Cullen and Joseph Allan Clair
Series: Publications of the American Maritain Association; American Maritain Association publications
Publisher: American Maritain Association; Distributed by the Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780966922684
Description: "Jacques Maritain was a leading French philosopher of the twentieth century. He came to know America first hand and taught at four American universities. This book explores his thought in its engagement of with the American political system and the American culture of liberal individualism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Maritain and the American experiment : challenges and problems. Catholicism and the Declaration of independence : an American dilemma about natural rights / Robert P. Kraynak; title: Social cohesion of a pluralist civil society : a challenge to Maritain's political philosophy / Henk E.S. Woldring; title: Resolving the tension between tolerance and truth : Jacques Maritain on the moral extremes of relativism and fanaticism / John G. Trapani, Jr.; title: Yves R. Simon and Aquinas on willing the common good / John A. Cuddeback; title: John Stuart Mill's deontological hedonism / Francis Slade; title: Part II: The Christian philosopher in society. Maritain and the problem of Christian philosophy / Mathew S. Pugh; title: A controversy reconsidered / Ralph C. Nelson; title: A good shepherd? Thomas Aquinas on the names of God in the Summa theologiae (I, Q. 13, AA. 1-7) / Timothy Valentine; title: Connaturality / Martin Andic; title: Part III: The person in society. Time and the human person / Teresa I. Reed; title: Transcending bodily existence and vulnerability / Alice Ramos; title: Beyond the personal : Weil's critique of Maritain / Eric O. Springsted; title: Part IV: Personalist ethics in a democratic society. The person in America / John F. Morris; title: Maritain, connaturality, and the American family / James G. Hanink; title: The "normal" pursuit of eudaimonia, and the potential obstacle posed by genetic manipulation / William M. Joensen.