Word: maritains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SCHOLASTICISM AND POLITICS-Jacques Maritain-Macmillan...
Outstanding lay Thomist today is Jacques Maritain, who was converted to Catholicism at 20, became professor of philosophy at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Outstanding secular centre of Thomism in the U. S. is the University of Chicago, where President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Jerome Adler (How to Read a Book) urge Aquinas and other humanist thinkers upon their students. Scholasticism and Politics represents Maritain's recent lectures at Chicago...
Gathered to glean what encouragement they could for civilization and the life of the mind were 140 college presidents, 500 scholars from many lands. But empty were seats reserved for British scholars. And when Jacques Maritain, famed Catholic philosopher of the France Ben Franklin loved, rose as the first speaker in Penn's conference of scholars, he spoke not as a representative of a sister republic but as a refugee...
...some Catholics agree with Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher, who has bailed the "moral greatness" of France and England, declared that they "suffer and fight . . . for the common good of civilized humanity...