The Person and the Common Good (English)

Maritain, Jacques

ISBN 10: 0268002045 / ISBN 13: 9780268002046

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers c799276f37b3f14269cbf066896d582a

Inhaltsangabe:

The Person and the Common Good, originally published in 1947, presents Jacques Maritain's clearest and most sustained treatment of the person. He asks whether the person is simply the self and nothing more. After more than half a century, Maritain's question still has great validity, given the current inordinate preoccupation with individualism. Presenting with moving insight the relations between man, as a person and as an individual, and the society of which he is a part, Maritain's treatment of a lasting topic speaks to this generation as well as those to come. He makes clear the personalism rooted in the doctrine of St. Thomas and separates the social philosophy centered in the dignity of the human person from every social philosophy centered in the primacy of the individual and the private good.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jacques Maritain was born in Paris in 1882 and studied at the Sorbonne, where he met his future wife, Raissa; both entered the Catholic Church under the influence of Leon Bloy in 1906. He became professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1914, and in 1948 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Princeton University. He also taught at the Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, the University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame. After World War II, he accepted the post of French ambassador to the Vatican, and headed the French delegation to UNESCO.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Person and the Common Good (English)
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: new