The scholarly works of Jacques Maritain, a prominent mid-20th-century Catholic philosopher, are beyond the comprehension of most casual readers. Fortunately, his essays on education are quite ...

Last year marked 50 years since the death of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and almost 60 years since the promulgation of “Nostra Aetate,” the Catholic Church’s declaration ...

Its first recipient was feted with a dinner at New York’s Fifth Avenue Hotel in May 1955, though the 250 guests present heard the honoree, Jacques Maritain, accept his award by telephone ...

The Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, Oxford hosts only the second ever UK ...

Among the thinkers studied in the class was the French Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain (1882-1973). Maritain was born in Paris and studied the natural sciences at the Sorbonne, where he met ...

The correspondence centres on Maritain’s exchanges with the other three, which is most probably due to the fact that he and his wife Raïssa were seriously revered and much consulted figures in ...

How Jacques Maritain, the most influential Catholic intellectual of the 20th century, changed the world. By Madoc Cairns It was a beautiful day in the long, hot summer of 1901 when Jacques Maritain ...

In 1901, on a summer day in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Jacques Maritain and his future wife, Raïssa, concluded a suicide pact. The two Sorbonne students despaired at the lectures of France ...

IN the five essays here translated into English (rather queer English in places) Prof. J. Maritain attacks the philosophy of Descartes ; in some ways very unfairly. The first essay deals with the ...