SCHOLASTICISM AND POLITICS

Jacques Maritain was deeply engaged in the intellectual and political life of France through the turbulent decades that included the two world wars. Accordingly, his philosophical reflections often focus on an attempt to discover man's role in sustaining a social and political order that seeks and maintains both liberty and peace. Scholasticism and Politics, first published in 1940, is a colle ction of nine lectures Maritain delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. While the lectures address a variety of diverse topi cs, they ...[Read more]