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Jacques Maritain was born on November 18th, 1882, in Paris, France. His mother, Geneviève Favre, was the daughter of Jules Favre, a famous republican who was opposed to the policies of Louis Napoleon. Geneviève raised her son in a liberal Protestant environment. After she divorced Paul Maritain in 1884, before Jacques’s sister was about to be
The closing chapter is a powerful critical narrative (almost mythology) of modern existentialism, even Kierkegaard, for co-opting the agony of theology into philosophy and yet refusing to recognize that it has done so. I do not see this as an uncritical forwarding of St. Thomas or a denial of the important questions raised by existentialism.
Books. Existence and the Existent. Jacques Maritain. Paulist Press, 2015 - Existentialism. In a substantial philosophical work, Jacques Maritain designated Christianity as the sole full humanism. Defender of Catholic orthodoxy, he contributed to the renaissance of Thomism, which had a great influence on the philosophical renewal that took place ...
In the monograph, Existential Theology: An Introduction (2020), Hue Woodson provides a constructive primer to the field and, he argues, thinkers that can be considered more broadly as engaging with existential theology, defining a French school including Gabriel Marcel, Jacques Maritain, and Jean-Luc Marion, a German school including Immanuel ...
Dr. DeMarco illustrates in this essay how Maritain’s Catholic Faith led him to develop a philosophic personalism based upon the teachings of St. Thomas. This key element in his thought may serve as a counter current to the contemporary world’s exaltation of selfishness. Jacques Maritain was born in Paris on November 18, 1882.
His wife and devoted intellectual companion, Raissa Maritain, was of Jewish descent but joined the Catholic church with him in 1906. Maritain studied under Henri Bergson but was dissatisfied with his teacher's philosophy, eventually finding certainty in the system of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Jacques Maritain: A Thomist Encounters Existentialism Lee C. Barrett. 1 Maritain’s Reputation as an Existentialist. Ever since Will Herberg’s popular anthology . Four Existentialist eologians. appeared in 1958, the English-speaking world has tended to regard Jacques Maritain as a omist with a pronounced existential orientation, or perhaps
