Man and the State
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0813209056
ISBN-13
9780813209050
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Imprint
The Catholic University of America Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 1998
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
282 grams
Dimensions
13.50 x 20.50 x 1.40 cms
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This is a reprint of Maritain's classic reflection on social and political issues. Maritain (1182-1973) was a French Catholic philosopher and writer and the lectures that were the basis for this book were delivered at the University of Chicago.
The lectures that were the basis for Man and the State were delivered at the University of Chicago at a time when Maritain was still in the first enthusiasm of his participation in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He devotes particular attention to the concept of rights, since, historically, rights theories were fashioned to supplant the natural law theory to which Maritain as a Thomist gives his allegiance. Maritain provides an ingenious and profound theory as to how natural law and natural rights can be complementary. For this reason alone it remains a fundamental contribution to political philosophy, but it is filled with other gems as well. Was Maritain too optimistic in his appraisal of modernity? Or have we unjustly lost the optimism that was his? Man and the State is an invitation to rethink the way we pose the basic questions of political philosophy.
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