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Maritain Jacques . 1882--1973, French neo-Thomist Roman Catholic philosopher How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Each chapter discusses a different virtuous ideal with reference to model individuals whose dedication spiritually embodied that ideal: Dorothy Day for the ideal of Christian Vision, Jacques Maritain for Christian Values, Mother Teresa of Calcutta for Christian Virtue, and more. As Jacques Maritain has written, "The tiniest grain of wheat is a resisting, consisting, subsisting reality, the intelligibility of which we shall never have ceased to drain. One of the many merits of Hugh Brogan's biography is to show, more judiciously than any Marxist cartoonist ever has, the pervasiveness of this evil in the French landed and moneyed classes, a pervasiveness evident in the novels of Balzac, Stendhal, and Flaubert, and one that Jacques Maritain was to mention as characteristic of the haughty and cynical French Right up into the 1930s and 1940s. |
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