Word: aquinases
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Although even at Virginia formal religion still appeals to only a sixth of the student body, undergraduates, like many graduates, have decided that theology is again intellectually respectable. At University of Chicago there has been an undergraduate swing to Catholicism during the last two years, credited to lectures by Professor...
Jefferson Aquinas. Many historians have argued that U.S. democracy is the direct outgrowth of colonial Protestantism, with its emphasis on individual responsibility, but Dr. Maynard has a different theory: "Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers [considered] Locke's Two Treatises on Government as the Bible of the Revolution. . . . Now...
In the 13th Century, St. Thomas Aquinas erected a towering Gothic cathedral of thought with vaulting arches of metaphysics, flying buttresses of Aristotelian science, stained windows of Revelation. In his great study of medieval France, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams sympathetically noted the judgment of Pope Leo XIII...
Outstanding lay Thomist today is Jacques Maritain, who was converted to Catholicism at 20, became professor of philosophy at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Outstanding secular centre of Thomism in the U. S. is the University of Chicago, where President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Jerome Adler (How to Read...
Maritain is pessimistic about patching up this mischief, sees no hope except in "a new temporal order inspired by Christianity." Man's basic need, he says, is a return to the "integral humanism" of Aquinas, a new philosophy of the person. Maritain's new society would be democratic...