Jacques Maritain, Man and the State (1951)

Authors

Richard W. Garnett, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Publication Information

1 J. Christian Legal Thought 13 (2011).

Abstract

From the Article

Jacques Maritain was one of the twentieth century’s most important and influential Christian philosophers and political thinkers. That said, his work, thought, and aspirations were not limited by the boundaries of any particular academic disciplines or traditions. His was, as Professor Brennan has observed, a “quest to understand the whole of reality, created and redeemed.” A great scholar of the medieval accomplishments of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, Maritain’s distinctive Christian Humanism shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Second Vatican Council, and the writing of the late Pope John Paul II.

Recommended Citation

Richard W. Garnett, Jacques Maritain, Man and the State (1951), 1 J. Christian Legal Thought 13 (2011)..
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