Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882 – April 28, 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. He was a convert to Catholicism and the author of more than 60 books. He is responsible for reviving St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times. Pope Paul VI, a long time friend and mentor of Maritain, presented his ?Message to Men of Thought and of Science? at the close of Vatican II to Maritain.

Writings of Maritain (His most important and influential works.)

• The Degrees of Knowledge,
• Integral Humanism,
• A Preface to Metaphysics,
• Education at the Crossroads,
• The Range of Reason,
• The Person and the Common Good,
• Approaches to God,
• Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry,
• Moral Philosophy,
• Introduction to Philosophy, Christian Classics, Inc., Westminster, MD, 1st. 1930, 1991.
• Existence and the Existent, An Essay on Christian Existentialism, trans. by Lewis Galantiere and Gerald B. Phelan, Image Books division of Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, NY, 1948, Image book, 1956.
• Man and The State, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ILL, 1951.
• The Peasant of the Garonne, An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time, trans. Michael Cuddihy and Elizabeth Hughes, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1968.
• God and the Permission of Evil, trans. Joseph W. Evans, The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, WI, 1966.