Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace

John P. Hittinger is Provost and Academic Dean of St Mary's College of Ave Maria University. He is the editor of Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain's Man and the State (with Timothy Fuller, 2001) and Liberalism at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Contemporary Liberal Thought and its Critics (with Christopher Wolfe, Rowman and Littlefield, 1994).

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon: Responding to the Political Crisis of the Twentieth CenturyChapter 3 The Political Philosophy of Jacques MaritainChapter 4 On Virtue With Genius: The Achievement of Yves R. Simon (1903-1961)Part 5 Thomism, Liberty, and DemocracyChapter 6 Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon's Use of Thomas Aquinas in Their Defense of Liberal DemocracyChapter 7 Maritain's Evaluation of Bourgeois LiberalismChapter 8 Three Philosophies of Human Rights: Locke, Richards, and MaritainChapter 9 Why Locke Rejected an Ethics of Virtue and Turns to UtilityChapter 10 The Two Lockes: On the Foundation of Liberty in LockeChapter 11 David A. J. Richards: Liberalism of the Autonomous PersonChapter 12 Approaches to Democratic EqualityChapter 13 Aurel Kolnai and the Metaphysics of Political ConservatismPart 14 Wisdom and GraceChapter 15 John Paul II and the Exorcism of Descartes' GhostChapter 16 Maritain on the Intuition of BeingChapter 17 Marion Montgomery and the Poet's Recovery of BeingChapter 18 Newman, Theology, and the Crisis in Liberal EducationChapter 19 James V. Schall on Faith, Reason, and PoliticsChapter 20 Maritain on the Cooperation of Church and State

Considered as a whole, these essays provide a comprehensive survey of the political thought of recent Thomist philosophers, Jacques Maritain—the book's central figure—and his colleague, Yves Simon, principally their understanding of the theory and practice of modern democracy.