Maritain and America

Jacques Maritain was a leading French philosopher of the twentieth century. He was particularly fond of America and its political experiment in liberal democracy. Maritain and America explores the engagement of his thought with the American experiment from the perspective of various philosophers in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas.

Christopher M. Cullen, S.J. is associate professor of philosophy at Fordham University and associate director of Fordham's Center for Medieval Studies. He is the author of Bonaventure. Joseph Allan Clair is currently in the Ph.D. program in the religion department at Princeton University. His research is on the political thought of Augustine of Hippo.

Introduction	p. v
Maritain and the American Experiment: Challenges and Problems
Catholicism and the Declaration of Independence: An American Dilemma about Natural Rights	p. 1
Social Cohesion of a Pluralist Civil Society: A Challenge to Maritain's Political Philosophy	p. 31
Resolving the Tension between Tolerance and Truth: Jacques Maritain on the Moral Extremes of Relativism and Fanaticism	p. 49
Yves R. Simon and Aquinas on Willing the Common Good	p. 58
John Stuart Mill's Deontological Hedonism	p. 73
The Christian Philosopher in Society
Maritain and the Problem of Christian Philosophy	p. 96
A Controversy Reconsidered	p. 118
A Good Shepherd? Thomas Aquinas on the Names of God in the Summa Theologiae (I, Q. 13, AA. 1-7)	p. 133
Connaturality	p. 147
The Person in Society
Time and the Human Person	p. 163
Transceding Bodily Existence and Vulnerability	p. 179
Beyond the Personal: Weil's Critique of Maritian	p. 192
Personalist Ethics in a Democratic Society
The Person in America	p. 203
Maritian, Connaturality, And the American Family	p. 221
The ôNormalö Pursuit of Eudaimonia, and The Potential Obstacle Posed by Genetic Manipulation	p. 236
Index	p. 263
Contributors	p. 267
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