Scholasticism and Politics (1940, 2011)
- Jacques Maritain (author)
- Mortimer J. Adler (translator)
Scholasticism and Politics, first published in 1940, is a collection of nine lectures Jacques Maritain delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. Maritain championed the cause of what he called personalist democracy—a regime committed to popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, limited government, and individual freedom. He believed this offered the modern world the possibility of a political order most in keeping with the demands of human dignity, Christian values, and the common good.
Key Quotes
Liberty
These things being understood, one immediately perceives the consequence they entail from the point of view of what one can call the dynamism of freedom. The first freedom (freedom of choice) exists for the sake of the second freedom (freedom of spontaneity or of independence) toward which the…