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Engaging the Times

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The essays in this volume commemorate the †70th anniversary of Jacques Maritain's Pour la Justice, in which the French Thomist and future draftŸ-er of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights grappled with the moral, political, and religious challenges facing Europe in the aŸermath of World War II. During this time Maritain reflected on humanism, Christian philosophy, the relation between freedom, religion and politics, and increasingly, on education.

Several scholars reflect on the historical impact of Maritain's own writings during World War II, Vatican II, and the Spanish Civil war. In other sections, contemporary Thomists suggest ways a resurgent Thomism can engage with the pressing issues of our own day. Essays on Thomistic ethics address problems in bioethics, the philosophy of love, and the foundations of Natural Law, while others tackle perennial problems in metaphysics and epistemology, such as the problem of free will, subjectivity, and the role of creative intuition in aesthetics. Still other essays apply Maritain's work on education to current challenges facing religious universities today.

The contributors to this volume include: Noel Adams, Florian Michel, Sr. Anne Frances Ai Le, Brian Kemple, Stephen Chamberlain, Walter Schulz, Francisco Eduardo Plaza, James Jacobs, John Dunaway, Greg Kerr, Megan Furman, Karen Chan, Justin Gable, Federico Tedesco, Michael Torre, Richard Schenk, OP, and Gregory Reichberg.

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ISBN: 9780982711996
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Author: Jacques Maritain
Publisher: American Maritain Association an imprint of The Catholic University of America Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 295 pages
Series: American Maritain Association Publications
Genres: Western philosophy from c 1800