Jacques Maritain

Degrees of Knowledge

Herausgeber: Mcinerny, Ralph

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work is Maritain's masterpiece. Published as ""Distinguer pour unir, ou Les degres du savoir"" in 1932, the book proposes a hierarchy of forms of knowledge that culminates in mystical experience and that wisdom which is a gift of the Holy Ghost. His inspiration is St Thomas Aquinas.

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Produktdetails

• Collected Works of Jacques Maritain
• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• 7. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780268008864
• ISBN-10: 0268008868
• Artikelnr.: 21536009

Autorenporträt

Jacques Maritain was born in Paris in 1882 and studied at the Sorbonne, where he met his future wife, Raissa; both entered the Catholic Church under the influence of Leon Bloy in 1906. He became professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1914, and in 1948 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Princeton University. He also taught at the Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, the University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame. After World War II, he accepted the post of French ambassador to the Vatican, and headed the French delegation to UNESCO.