The Person and the Common Good

by Jacques Maritain, John J. Fitzgerald (Translator), Jacques Maritain (Translator)

Overview

Presenting with moving insight the relations between man, as a person and as an individual, and the society of which he is a part, Maritain's treatment of a lasting topic speaks to this generation as well as those to come. Maritain employs the personalism rooted in Aquinas's doctrine to distinguish between social philosophy centered in the dignity of the human person and that centered in the primacy of the individual and the private good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780268002046
Publisher:	University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date:	04/22/1994
Edition description:	1
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) was one of the twentieth century's greatest Christian philosophers. He is the author of, among other books, The Degrees of Knowledge (Notre Dame Press, 1995), Untrammeled Approaches (Notre Dame Press, 1996), and Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence (Notre Dame Press, 1996).