Jacques Maritain

French Catholic philosopher (1882–1973), associated with the Thomist revival and the Catholic-personalist movement. Author of Humanisme intégral (1936) / True Humanism — the cardinal Catholic-personalist political-philosophical statement of the 1930s — and many other works in metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy, and theology.

Role in the Wiki

Per Mounier (Personalism Informal Introduction, p. xx): Maritain is named alongside Berdyaev, Marcel, Jaspers, Lotze, Scheler, Buber, Bergson, Blondel, Péguy, Landsberg, and Mounier himself as a contributor to the 20th-century revival of personalist thought. Mounier credits Maritain specifically with "applying the clarifying realism of St. Thomas to the most immediate of contemporary problems."

Maritain is currently a gap entity — referenced from Mounier's primer but no primary Maritain source is yet in the wiki. This page is a stub to host wikilinks and to be expanded when a Maritain primary source (likely Humanisme intégral 1936 or The Person and the Common Good 1947) is ingested.

Connections

  • contributes to the 1930s personalist constellation alongside Mounier and Marcel
  • applies Thomist realism to contemporary problems (per Mounier 1950)
  • is named alongside Berdyaev in the personalist genealogy

Sources

Open Questions

  • The relation between Maritain's integral humanism and Mounier's personalism is named but not developed in Mounier 1950. A Maritain primary source would clarify whether they converge or diverge in fundamentals.
  • Maritain's 1947 The Person and the Common Good postdates Mounier's Liberté sous conditions (1946) but precedes Le Personnalisme (1950); chronological mapping not done.