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 ...
For many years, the influential philosopher Jacques Maritain has been seen as a rare philosemite among the French Catholics of his day (Maritain died at age 90 in 1973). Robert Royal’s 1993 study, ...
When I was a college seminarian, studying philosophy at New York’s Saint John’s University in the 1990s, I had an incredible professor, a priest of my diocese (Brooklyn), Fr. Robert Lauder. Fr. Lauder ...
Jacques Maritain with Pope Paul VI in an undated photo (Wikimedia Commons). Last year marked 50 years since the death of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and almost 60 years since the ...