DE Weekly: Maritain, Personalism, & Existence and the Existent
Today, I am going to introduce a philosopher I have not written about in this newsletter to date, whose name is Jacques Maritain. Born in 1882, Maritain was a twentieth-century philosopher and theologian who revitalized Thomism, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Maritain used the philosophy of Aquinas to address modern issues, drawing from Aquinas on issues such as the dignity inherent in every human person, and emphasizing a God-centered approach to politics and ethics.
DE Weekly: The Good, the True, & the Beautiful
What lies at the core of every philosophical inquiry, every invented line of thinking, and every word on every page of every philosophical treatise ever written? I would argue that philosophy’s aim throughout human history has been to ascertain “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.”
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful is a classical philosophical concept with roots in Ancient Greece, conceptualized by Socrates and later by Plato and Aristotle.