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Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, Revised Edition (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
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Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, Revised Edition (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
Series: Collected Works of Jacques Maritain
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The three books presented in this volume, Integral Humanism,
Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, were all
written in the early 1930s, a time of dire trouble for France.
France was then surrounded by enemies preparing for war and was
itself so violently split between parties of Left and Right that it
seemed on the verge of civil war. In this collection, Jacques
Maritain accepts the responsibility of a Christian philosopher to
actively address the agonizing practical problems of the time.
Maritain discusses major political issues such as the relation of
freedom and religion, the opposition of democracy to any form of
totalitarianism, the relation of the spiritual and the temporal,
the need for an integral and Christian humanism, and the prospects
for a new Christian civilization, all in opposition to the
materialism of both communism and capitalism. Against the fierce
antagonism of the parties of the political Left and Right, Maritain
declares a plague on both their houses and strongly affirms the
need for independence from both of them. He does so by
distinguishing between two senses of the terms Left and Right, one
denoting a temperamental or physiological disposition, the other a
definite political position. In the latter sense, Maritain asserts
that he is an independent, while acknowledging that he is, by
temperament, a man of the Left.
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