Maritain and America

Edited by Christopher Cullen, S.J. and Joseph Allan Clair

© Copyright 2009 by the American Maritain Association. All rights reserved.

Contents

• Introduction / Joseph Allan Clair

Part I: Maritain and the American Experiment: Challenges and Problems

• Catholicism and the Declaration of Independence: An American Dilemma About Natural Rights / Robert P. Kraynak
• Social Cohesion of a Pluralist Civil Society: A Challenge to Maritain's Political Philosophy / Henk E.S. Woldring
• Resolving the Tension Between Tolerance and Truth: Jacques Maritain on the Moral Extremes of Relativism and Fanaticism / John G. Trapani,Jr.
• Yves R. Simon and Aquinas on Willing The Common Good / John A. Cuddeback
• John Stuart Mill's Deontological Hedonism / Francis Slade

Part II: The Christian Philosopher in Society

• Maritain and the Problem of Christian Philosophy / Matthew S. Pugh
• A Controversy Reconsidered / Ralph C. Nelson
• A Good Shepherd? Thomas Aquinas on the Names of God in the Summa Theologiae (I,Q.Lj,Aa.L-7) / Timothy Valentine, S.J.
• Connaturality / Martin Andic

Part III The Person In Society

• Time and the Human Person / Teresa I. Reed
• Transcending Bodily Existence and Vulnerability / Alice Ramos
• Beyond The Personal: Weil's Critique of Maritain / Eric O. Springsted

Part IV: Personalist Ethics In A Democratic Society

• The Person in America / John F. Morris
• Maritain, Connaturality, and the American Family / James G. Hanink
• The "Normal" Pursuit of Eudaimonia, and the Potential Obstacle Posed by Genetic Manipulation / William M. Joensen

• Index
• Contributors