Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace Thomism and

Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace is a comprehensive survey of the Thomists' contributions to contemporary political thought as well as a detailed analysis of their approach to democracy.

John P. Hittinger is Provost and Academic Dean of St. Mary's College of Ave Maria University

Foreword: ``The Very Graciousness of Being''

ix

James V. Schall

Preface

xxi

Acknowledgments

xxv

Part I: Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon: Responding to the Political Crisis of the Twentieth Century

The Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain

3

(18)

On Virtue with Genius: The Achievement of Yves R. Simon

21

(14)

Part II: Thomism, Liberty, and Democracy

Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon's Use of Thomas Aquinas in Their Defense of Liberal Democracy

35

(26)

Maritain's Evaluation of Bourgeois Liberalism

61

(12)

Three Philosophies of Human Rights: Locke, Richards, and Maritain

73

(14)

Why Locke Rejected an Ethics of Virtue and Turned to Utility

87

(10)

The Two Lockes: On the Foundation of Liberty in Locke

97

(32)

David A. J. Richards: Liberalism of the Autonomous Person

129

(14)

Approaches to Democratic Equality

143

(20)

Aurel Kolnai and the Metaphysics of Political Conservatism

163

(26)

Part III: Wisdom and Grace

John Paul II and the Exorcism of Descartes' Ghost

189

(14)

Maritain on the Intuition of Being

203

(10)

Marion Montgomery and the Poet's Recovery of Being

213

(18)

Newman, Theology, and the Crisis in Liberal Education

231

(36)

James V. Schall on Faith, Reason, and Politics

267

(8)

Maritain on the Cooperation of Church and State

275

(28)

Selected Bibliography of Maritain, Pieper, and Simon

303

(4)

Index

307

(6)

About the Author

313

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Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace Thomism and Democratic Political Theory

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