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Maritain
[ ma-ree-tan ]
noun
- Jacques [zhahk], 1882–1973, French philosopher and diplomat.
Maritain
/ maritɛ̃ /
noun
- MaritainJacques18821973MFrenchPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Jacques (ʒak). 1882–1973, French neo-Thomist Roman Catholic philosopher
Example Sentences
The Christian philosopher Jacques Maritain became his spiritual adviser.
French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, who was involved in the debates surrounding the Universal Declaration, said, “We agree on these rights, providing we are not asked why. With the ‘why,’ the dispute begins.”
He also recognized, well before such Catholic thinkers as Simone Weil and Jacques Maritain, that new conceptions of social interdependence, individual agency, and cosmopolitan responsibility were needed to save the world from the delusions of individualism and collectivism.
Maritain correctly described satyagraha as “spiritual warfare.”
A few years later, as World War II raged, the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain took up this argument.
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