The work of the lay Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) continues to provoke and inspire readers to engage in a Thomistic approach to many of the questions facing the world today. Maritain s wide-ranging thought touched on many fields, including aesthetics, anthropology, educational theory, moral philosophy, and ethics, as well as Thomism and its relationship to other philosophical stances.
In Being in the World: A Quotable Maritain Reader, Mario O. D Souza, C.S.B., has selected seven hundred and fifty of the most salient quotations found in the English translations...