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Just War JACQUES MARITAIN A French philosopher discusses the criteria for a just war as they apply to the present conflict. With what power events, when they involve...

CORRESPONDENCE (November 1973)

CORRESPONDENCE CATHOLIC JOURNALISM November 26, 1924 London, England To the Editors: I cannot pretend to speak of conditions on your side of the Atlantic, for it has been the most...

Georges Rouault, 1871-1958 (April 1958)

In the second Salon d'Automne, in 1905, there occurred the famous revolt of the Fauves or "wild beasts," among them Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Rouault. But Rouault's association with the...

Truth and Tolerance (September 1957)

Truth and Tolerance "IT IS NOT UNUSUAL TO MEET PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT NOT TO BELIEVE IN ANY TRUTH IS A PRIMARY CONDITION REQUIRED OF DEMOCRATIC CITIZENS" JACQUES...

Christianity and Democracy (June 1954)

Christianity and Democracy "UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE GOSPEL AT WORK IN HISTORY, THE SECULAR CONSCIENCE HAS LEARNED THE DIGNITY OF THE PEOPLE AND OF THE COMMON MAN," JACQUES MARITAIN T HE...

The Problem of Means (February 1951)

The Problem of Means "The fear of soiling ourselves by entering the context of history is not virtue, but a way of escaping virtue." By JACQUES MARITAIN THE PROBLEM of Means is, as I see it, a...

The Ways of Faith (October 1949)

The Ways of Faith Faith does not stop at words or symbols. Its end is nothing less than reality...

A LETTER ON ANTI-SEMITISM (February 1948)

489 A Letter on Anti-Semitism Jacques Mart tain The following is the text sent from Rome to Dr. Pierre Visseur of the International Council of Christians and Jews to be communicated to...

That Suffer Persecution (October 1946)

That Suffer Persecution... What of sinners who suffer for justice' sake? Jacques Maritain g ~ l " ~ LESSED are they that suffer persecu13 tion for justice's sake: for theirs is the the...

EDUCATION FOR THE GOOD LIFE: III (May 1946)

9o THE COMMONWEAL May io, x946 Securl.ty regulations precluded reporting at the ~,,e the rescue operations involving Allied per~nnel in enemy occupied territory carried out by |talian...

EDUCATION FOR THE GOOD LIFE: II (May 1946)

68 THE COM scarce, I can always use rammed earth construction. As a boy in Alaska I recall that many of my friends lived in sod houses. The important thing is the will and determination to...

EDUCATION FOR THE GOOD LIFE (April 1946)

Education for the Good Life Jacques THE PROBLEMS of Modern Education, or rather of postwar education, are as many-faceted as they are serious and urgent. I have tried to discuss a number of...

MARITAIN LEAVES FOR ROME (April 1945)

Maritain heaves for Rome Speeches at a luncheon held in his honor* AFTER THE luncheon was over, Mr. Henri Bernstein turned toward Madame Maritain, who was seated at his left, and...

COMMUNICATIONS (November 1944)

64 T H E C O M M O N W E A L November 3, 1944 Communications TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY The White House, Washington, D. C. TO tiie Editors: It is a pleasure to congratulate you and The...

IN TORMENT AND IN HOPE:A Frenchman (July 1943)

366 THE COMMONWEAL July 30, 1943 A Frenchman: OW can I speak of France without speak ing first of all the people of France, the suffering and unyielding core of the nation? The people of...

HIGHER LEARNING AND UNITY (July 1943)

Higher Learning and Unity By Jacques Maritain PROFESSOR JOHN U. NEF recently published an essay, "The Universities Look for Unity,"1 the importance of which must be particularly stressed. He...

Christianity and Democracy (May 1943)

This page is missing This page is missing 68 THE COMMONWEAL May 7, 1943 commonwealth only because this authority manifests the common consent in them, and because they have received their trust...

AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE NEW EUROPE (February 1943)

America's Role in the New Europe A broadcast appealing for our trust and heroic friendship, for boldness and...

ON ANTI-SEMITISM (September 1942)

On Anti-Semitism Reflections prompted by two recent books on the subject. By Jacques Maritain PEOPLE don't like being told of atrocities. They don't like atrocious problems. They don't like...

THE NATURAL LAW (May 1942)

83 The Natural Law An inquiry into its relationship with the rights of the human person.* By Jacques Maritain IN ORDER to examine philosophically the question of the rights of a human being,...

TEN MONTHS LATER (June 1940)

Ten Months Later By Jacques Maritain AT THE BEGINNING of the war I pub- Slavery. The subtle thinkers and...

EUROPE AND THE FEDERAL IDEA-II (April 1940)

8 THE COMMONWEAL April 26, 1940 in our educational systems and in our culture. It It may suffice to recall that a part of...

EUROPE AND THE FEDERAL IDEA (April 1940)

AT THE SAME TIME as I thank T H E COMMONWEAL for having asked me to prepare for it the present article, I should like as well to thank those who had the courtesy to criticize my previous...

JUST WAR (December 1939)

WITH what power events, when they involve suffering and bloodshed, challenge the spirit. More than ever reason has a duty to see clearly. But in the fire of such events ideas are quickly put to...

TO MY AMERICAN FRIENDS (October 1939)

October I3, I939 THE COMMONWEAL 55I reading for knowledge, that book is best, obviously, which most adequately treats a given subject-matter. One author may lack information which another...

War and the Bombardment of Cities (September 1938)

46o THE COMMONWEAL September 2, 1938 to dominate the policies and acts of both C.I.O. and A.F.L. President Roosevelt's assurance after the announcement of the A.F.L. campaign that there would be no...

A Note on the Bourgeois World (June 1933)

June 2, I933 THE COMMONWEAL Ix 9 A NOTE ON THE BOURGEOIS WORLD ' By JACQUES MARITAIN c APITALIST economics must be criticized, not on the basis of historical materialism and Marxist themes,...

A Note on the Bourgeois World (May 1933)

94 THE COMMONWEAL May 26, ~933 A NOTE ON THE BOURGEOIS WORLD By JACQUES MARITAIN T HE VERY idea of a bond between Christianity and the bourgeois or capitalist world is paradoxical. Many of our...

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