The political theory of personalism: Maritain and Mounier on personhood and citizenship
@article{Deweer2013ThePT, title={The political theory of personalism: Maritain and Mounier on personhood and citizenship}, author={Dries Deweer}, journal={International Journal of Philosophy and Theology}, year={2013}, volume={74}, pages={108 - 126} }
This article shows that the work of Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier contains a distinct political theory. Despite the differences in the foundations of their thought, Maritain and Mounier were both Catholic philosophers looking for the task of man in society. They both came to the conclusion that the vocation of man necessarily implies a social and political aspect. The integral development of the human person requires a societal framework, which is the common good that politics is…
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