Engaging the Times:
The Witness of Thomism
Edited by Joshua Schulz
Book Overview
The essays in this volume commemorate the 70th anniversary of Jacques Maritain's Pour la Justice, in which the French Thomist and future drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights grappled with the moral, political, and religious challenges facing Europe in the aftermath of World War II. During this time Maritain reflected on humanism, Christian philosophy, the relation between freedom, religion and politics, and increasingly, on education.
Several scholars reflect on the historical impact of Maritain's own writings during World War II, Vatican II, and the Spanish Civil war. In other sections, contemporary Thomists suggest ways a resurgent Thomism can engage with the pressing issues of our own day. Essays on Thomistic ethics address problems in bioethics, the philosophy of love, and the foundations of Natural Law, while others tackle perennial problems in metaphysics and epistemology, such as the problem of free will, subjectivity, and the role of creative intuition in aesthetics. Still other essays apply Maritain's work on education to current challenges facing religious universities today.
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Contents
Joshua Schulz, “Introduction: Engaging the Times”
Michael D. Torre, “The Nobility of Jacques Maritain's Witness and Work in World War II”
Richard Schenk, O.P., “Maritain and the Possibilities for Cooperation in a Still Divided World”
Florian Michel, “Jacques Maritain Engagé in Social Questions: Early Years Between Revolution and Democratic Socialism”
John Dunaway, “Maritain's Role in the American Civil Rights Movement”
Gregory Reichberg, “Jacques Maritain, Spain, and Holy War”
Noel Adams, “Market Pressures, Outcomes Assessment, and Catholic Higher Education: At the Crossroads-Again”
Walter Schultz, “Two Universal Principles of Education: Intuition and Love”
Stephen Chamberlain, “Interpreting the Times: The Philosopher's Understanding in Engaging the World”
Brian Kemple, “Jacques Maritain and Ens ut Primum Cognitum”
Francisco Eduardo Plaza, “Subjectivity and the Prise de Conscience in Jacques Maritain”
Gregory Kerr, “Will the Real Agents Please Stand Up? Jacques Maritain and David Bently Hart on Science and Human Agency”
Federico Tedesco, “The Body's Justice: A Hylomorphic View of the Genesis of Virtue”
James Jacobs, “The Corrosive Effect of Doubt on the Natural Law”
Anne Francis Ai Le, O.P., “It is Right and Just: Ontological Poverty and the Duty of Religion”
Justin Gable, O.P, “Revisionism or Within the Roman Catholic Ethical Tradition? John Paul II on Assisted Nutrition and Hydration”
Megan Furman, “Art and Morality: Nuancing the Divide through Creative Intuition”
Karen Chan, “Mothers, Children, and their Common Good”
About the Authors
Index