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John P. Hittinger is Provost and Academic Dean of St Mary's College of Ave Maria University. He is the editor of Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain's Man and the State (with Timothy Fuller, 2001) and Liberalism at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Contemporary Liberal Thought and its Critics (with Christopher Wolfe, Rowman and Littlefield, 1994).
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon: Responding to the Political Crisis of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 3 The Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain
Chapter 4 On Virtue With Genius: The Achievement of Yves R. Simon (1903-1961)
Part 5 Thomism, Liberty, and Democracy
Chapter 6 Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon's Use of Thomas Aquinas in Their Defense of Liberal Democracy
Chapter 7 Maritain's Evaluation of Bourgeois Liberalism
Chapter 8 Three Philosophies of Human Rights: Locke, Richards, and Maritain
Chapter 9 Why Locke Rejected an Ethics of Virtue and Turns to Utility
Chapter 10 The Two Lockes: On the Foundation of Liberty in Locke
Chapter 11 David A. J. Richards: Liberalism of the Autonomous Person
Chapter 12 Approaches to Democratic Equality
Chapter 13 Aurel Kolnai and the Metaphysics of Political Conservatism
Part 14 Wisdom and Grace
Chapter 15 John Paul II and the Exorcism of Descartes' Ghost
Chapter 16 Maritain on the Intuition of Being
Chapter 17 Marion Montgomery and the Poet's Recovery of Being
Chapter 18 Newman, Theology, and the Crisis in Liberal Education
Chapter 19 James V. Schall on Faith, Reason, and Politics
Chapter 20 Maritain on the Cooperation of Church and State
Considered as a whole, these essays provide a comprehensive survey of the political thought of recent Thomist philosophers, Jacques Maritain—the book's central figure—and his colleague, Yves Simon, principally their understanding of the theory and practice of modern democracy.
— Journal of Markets & Morality
Hittinger writes with insight and style. . . . In reflecting on these 16 essays one can see the outlines of a Thomism for the democratic age.
— Claremont Review of Books
Hittinger's confrontation with the subjects of this work is so intensely personal that to read them is to be drawn into a dialogue not only with the subject matter but also with Hittinger himself. It is a bracing and rewarding experience.
— Perspectives on Political Science
This work establishes John Hittinger as one of the ost important political theorists of his generation writing from a Thomistic perspective. Standing on the shoulders of Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon, Leo Strauss, and Eric Vogelin, he establishes his own credentials as an equally sagacious social and political thinker. . . . For a Thomist theory of democratic government and its implications for education, no better text is likely to be found.
— Review of Metaphysics