An Essay on Christian Philosophy - Softcover

Maritain, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806530197 ISBN 13: 9780806530192

Verlag: Philosophical Library, 2007

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Reseña del editor

This original translation, by Edward H. Flannery, brings you one of Maritain’s most eye-opening studies of Christianity. Although not his most famous work, Maritain’s An Essay on Christian Philosophy provides readers with an in-depth analysis and careful philosophical approach to the study of theology and, at the time of original publication, was considered to be the definitive statement of the Thomistic position. Discover his theses for yourself as Maritain considers the nature of philosophy, morality, and their relations to Christianity with clarity and a scholarly attention to detail. Flannery provides English readers with a glossary of terms to bring further understanding to Maritain’s original words. Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher and political thinker. He was born in Paris in 1882, where he spent most of his life. His father was a prominent lawyer and his mother the daughter of a statesman. He attended the Sorbonne to study philosophy and natural science, and after marrying, he and his wife converted to Catholicism. It was after this he became a well-known scholar of St. Thomas Aquinas and Thomistic philosophy. He published widely on philosophical and political thought, and by the 1930s, he was an established thinker in the Catholic community. After the outbreak of WWII, Maritain relocated to the United States, where he taught at Princeton University and Columbia University. Later in life, he and his wife returned to France, where he continued to write and study Catholic scholarship until his death in 1973.

Biografía del autor

Jacques Maritain was born in Paris in 1882. A convert to Catholicism, he was professor at the Medieval Institute of Studies of Toronto and at Princeton University. He was French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945-48 and received the Grand Prix de Litt rature de l'Acad mie fran aise in 1961.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Philosophical Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0806530197
• ISBN 13: 9780806530192
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132