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Jacques Maritain (French: [ʒak maʁitɛ̃]; 18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant , he was agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906.
The Range of Reason is a 1952 book of essays by the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain.The text presents a Thomist philosophy regarding religion and morality. It contains a study of Atheism, titled "The Meaning of Contemporary Atheism", which has had a considerable impact on Catholic views of Atheism.
Art and Scholasticism (French: Art et scolastique) is a 1920 book by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain. It is considered his major contribution to aesthetics . [ 1 ] According to Gary Furnell, the work "was a key text that guided the work of writers such as Allen Tate , Caroline Gordon , Sally and Robert Fitzgerald , Francois Mauriac ...
The perennial philosophy (Latin: philosophia perennis), [note 1] also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a school of thought in philosophy and spirituality that posits that the recurrence of common themes across world religions illuminates universal truths about the nature of reality, humanity, ethics, and consciousness.
In The Degrees of Knowledge, Maritain discusses his idea of “critical realism.” Maritain lists and discusses seven points from Thomas Aquinas’ doctrine of the nature of knowledge, for Maritain's critical realism was heavily influenced by Aquinas. First, Maritain states that a being's knowledge is a measure of its immaterialism. [1]
Authors such as Étienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, and Joseph Maréchal investigated alternative interpretations of Aquinas from the 1920s until the 1950s. Gilson and Maritain in particular taught and lectured throughout Europe and North America, influencing a generation of English-speaking Catholic philosophers.
Haldane, John (2005). "Maritain, Jacques". In Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926479-1. Maritain, Jacques (1994). The Person and the Common Good. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0268002046
Jacques Maritain, Integral Humanism: Temporal and Spiritual Problems of a New Christendom, 1936; John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, 1939; Jacques Maritain, The Rights of Man and Natural Law, 1942; Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944; Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945; Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951