Jacques Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing

Douglas A. Ollivant, Editor

Introduction by George Anastaplo

American Maritain Association

Contents

• Editor's Preface
• Introduction: The Forms of our Knowing: A Somewhat Socratic Introduction / George Anastaplo

PART I THE FORMS OF OUR KNOWING

• The Mysterious Value of the Human Person / Joseph M. de Torre
• It Takes One to Know One: Connaturality - Knowledge or Prejudice? / Catherine Green
• Knowing Our Knowings / Gregory J. Kerr
• Transcendental Thomist Methodology and Maritain's "Critical Realism" / John F. X. Knasas
• Ways of Knowing Metaphysical Being: Aquinas and Heidegger / Matthew S. Pugh
• Knowing Subjectivity: Jacques Maritain and John Crosby / James G. Hanink
• Thomist or Relativist? Macintyre's Interpretation of adaequatio intellectus et rei / W. Matthews Grant
• Gilson and Maritain on the Principle of Sufficient Reason / Desmond FitzGerald
• The Loss of the Knowing Subject in Contemporary Epistemology / Raymond Dennehy

PART II POLITICS, CULTURE, LITERATURE

• Combatting The Iron-Gloved Angel: Swift and Maritain v. Descartes / Thomas F. Woods
• The Politics of Realism: Locke, Maritain, and Hallowell on Liberalism and Knowledge / Douglas A. Ollivant
• The Air We Breathe: The Reality of Our Knowledge and Our Knowledge of Reality / John G. Trapani, Jr.
• Understanding Freedom as a Way of Knowing Social Life / Henk E. S. Woldring
• Known Invincible Ignorance and Moral Responsibility: When We Know That We Don't Know / John F. Morris
• Maritain and Macintyre on Moral Education / Christopher H. Toner
• Yves R. Simon on the Nature and Role of Moral Philosophy / Ralph Nelson

PART III SCIENCE, ART, THEOLOGY, MYSTICISM

• Mystical Theology in Aquinas and Maritain / Robert A. Delfino
• Nonlocality and Maritain's Dream of a Philosophy of Nature / James Arraj
• Out of the Shadow: Henri Bergson and Three French Philosophers / William J. Fossati
• Knowledge and Subjectivity in Maritain, Stravinsky, and Messiaen / Robert Fallon
• The Recovery of the Symbolic / Steven J. Schloeder
• Maritain on the Song of Songs / John M. Dunaway

• Contributors
• Index