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[Jacques Maritain] ✓ Man and the State ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Man and the State He served as French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945 to 1948.CONTENTS1. The Concept of Sovereignty3. The Problem of Means4. Maritain provides an ingenious and profound theory as to how natural law and natural rights can be complementary. The Democratic Charter6. The Problem of World Government. The Rights of Man5. Written during his exile from war-torn Europe, Man and the State is the fruit of Maritain's considerable learning as well as his reflections on his positive American experien
| Title | : | Man and the State |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (834 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813209056 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 219 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Sound piece of political philosophy This is a fine little piece of Maritain's work. Starting with the definitions of the body politic, state, nation, etc. Maritain elucidates the proper notion of authority in a democracy, an authority that can must be in accord with Natural Law. The chapter on human rights is worth the cost of the book itself, as the west is in dire need of a sound notion of human. Another View of Men and the State vs. The Higher Law James E. Egolf Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)wrote this book after W.W. II, and it was published in 1951. This book was an optimistic yet practical view of political power and Ultimate Values or the Higher Law. Maritain argued that a practical view of political power and rights could work if men recognized such a state for their mutual benefit in spite of religious and political. Man and The State presents a profound view of the state and its role in the body politic. Man and the State is concerned with the relationships between the person, the body politic, and the state. Maritain draws on history, Thomistic philosophy, and political philosophy to present a vision of a future state that best serves the person, the common good, and preserves peace among nations.The pain of World War II, communism, and the advent of the atomic
He served as French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945 to 1948.CONTENTS1. The Concept of Sovereignty3. The Problem of Means4. Maritain provides an ingenious and profound theory as to how natural law and natural rights can be complementary. The Democratic Charter6. The Problem of World Government. The Rights of Man5. Written during his exile from war-torn Europe, Man and the State is the fruit of Maritain's considerable learning as well as his reflections on his positive American experience and on the failure of regimes he closely encountered on the Continent."Jude P. Was Maritain too optimistic in his appraisal o
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