Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain Born (1882-11-18)18 November 1882 Paris, France Died 28 April 1973(1973-04-28) (aged 90) Toulouse, France Nationality French Religion Roman Catholic Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy Main interests Philosophy of religion, political theory, philosophy of science, metaphysics Influences Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Charles Maurras, Étienne Gilson Influenced Jean Daujat, John F. X. Knasas, Ivan Illich, John Haddox, Yves Simon, Yves Congar Part of a series on Christian democracy Organizations List of Christian Democratic parties Centrist Democrat International Christian Democrat Organization of America European People's Party European Christian Political Movement European Democratic Party Ideas Social conservatism Social market economy Communitarianism Human dignity Solidarity (in Catholicism) Subsidiarity (in Catholicism) Sphere sovereignty Stewardship Distributism Christian corporatism Catholic social teaching Neo-Calvinism Neo-Thomism Documents Rerum novarum Kuyper's Stone Lectures on Calvinism Graves de communi re Quadragesimo anno Laborem exercens Sollicitudo rei socialis Centesimus annus People Thomas Aquinas John Calvin Pope Leo XIII Abraham Kuyper Jacques Maritain Konrad Adenauer Alcide De Gasperi Luigi Sturzo Robert Schuman Pope Pius XI Eduardo Frei Pope John Paul II Helmut Kohl Giulio Andreotti Eamon de Valera Politics portal v t e Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he became an agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times, and was influential in the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pope Paul VI presented his "Message to Men of Thought and of Science" at the close of Vatican II to Maritain, his long-time friend and mentor. Maritain's interest and works spanned many aspects of philosophy, including aesthetics, political theory, philosophy of science, metaphysics, the nature of education, liturgy and ecclesiology.