J. #Maritain would be 143 tday. "Society appears, therefore, to provide the human person with just those conditions of existence and development which it needs. It is not by itself alone that it reaches its plenitude but by receiving essential goods from society." #philosophy buff.ly/BJwTyE9

"The essential importance of this distinction [between individuality and personality] is revealed in the principles of St. Thomas." ~Review of Politics #St.Thomas #Maritain #CommonGood

Learn more through Jacques Maritain’s THE PERSON AND THE COMMON GOOD at: bit.ly/3AaSfT4

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THE PERSON AND THE COMMON GOOD "insists clearly and forcefully that the common good of all and the personal good of each are strictly correlative, implying and serving each other. Neither is intelligible without the other." ~Journal of Philosophy #Maritain #NDPGems

Book at: bit.ly/3AaSfT4

If You Hear Someone Saying God Loves the Angels More than Us… … run the other way. I know, this seems like an innocuous point of trivial theologizing. But there is a significant history and context to this debate. A similar debate happened last in the 1930s–’…

The whole point is to justify loving some people more than others. This is a theological proxy war, and we’ve been here before. #Maritain #deLubac
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