The Last Letter. On the Correspondence Between Vladimir Ghika and Jacques Maritain

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 105-133
Author(s):  
Liana Gehl ◽  
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L’ultima lettera. Sulla corrispondenza fra Vladimir Ghika e Jacques Maritain. Tra il 1920 e il 1945, il Beato Vladimir Ghika e il filosofo francese Jacques Maritain condussero un ricco epistolare. Nonostante le avversità, più di trecentottanta lettere si sono conservate fino ad oggi. Iniziato nei “ruggenti anni Venti”, lo scambio si concluse bruscamente sulla soglia della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Il presente articolo si concentra sull’ultimo pezzo della corrispondenza: la lettera scritta da Ghika a Maritain il 18 luglio 1945. Dopo averne indagato il contesto e sotteso il significato per le parti direttamente coinvolte, lo studio si pone la domanda dell’eventuale rilevanza per il lettore contemporaneo. La traduzione inglese dell’“ultima lettera”, come pure di quella che la precede, sono fornite in Appendice, insieme a una tabella riassuntiva dei temi e delle emozioni espresse nell’ultima lettera. Parole-chiave: Vladimir Ghika, Jacques Maritain, guerra, amore, fede, agire, ricostruzione

Author(s):  
Matthew Bagot

One of the central questions in international relations today is how we should conceive of state sovereignty. The notion of sovereignty—’supreme authority within a territory’, as Daniel Philpott defines it—emerged after the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 as a result of which the late medieval crisis of pluralism was settled. But recent changes in the international order, such as technological advances that have spurred globalization and the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect, have cast the notion of sovereignty into an unclear light. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate regarding sovereignty by exploring two schools of thought on the matter: first, three Catholic scholars from the past century—Luigi Sturzo, Jacques Maritain, and John Courtney Murray, S.J.—taken as representative of Catholic tradition; second, a number of contemporary political theorists of cosmopolitan democracy. The paper argues that there is a confluence between the Catholic thinkers and the cosmopolitan democrats regarding their understanding of state sovereignty and that, taken together, the two schools have much to contribute not only to our current understanding of sovereignty, but also to the future of global governance.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Eduardo Eduardo Carreño P. ◽  
Alejandro Serani M
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<p>En este artículo se aporta una clarificación del estatuto que les compete a la paleontología y a otras disciplinas. Tomando como fundamento la epistemología<br />desarrollada por Jacques Maritain, sostenemos que esta clase de indagaciones, por su objeto pretérito y contingente, y por su metodología interpretativa, constituyen un tipo epistemológico específico, diferente del de la ciencia, que aquí catalogamos como histórico-natural.</p>


2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik OPDEBEECK
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Author(s):  
Miguel Vatter

The ‘return of religion’ in the public sphere and the emergence of postsecular societies have propelled the discourse of political theology into the centre of contemporary democratic theory. This situation calls forth the question addressed in this book: Is a democratic political theology possible? Carl Schmitt first developed the idea of the Christian theological foundations of modern legal and political concepts in order to criticize the secular basis of liberal democracy. He employed political theology to argue for the continued legitimacy of the absolute sovereignty of the state against the claims raised by pluralist and globalized civil society. This book shows how, after Schmitt, some of the main political theorists of the 20th century, from Jacques Maritain to Jürgen Habermas, sought to establish an affirmative connection between Christian political theology, popular sovereignty, and the legitimacy of democratic government. In so doing, the political representation of God in the world was no longer placed in the hands of hierarchical and sovereign lieutenants (Church, Empire, Nation), but in a series of democratic institutions, practices and conceptions like direct representation, constitutionalism, universal human rights, and public reason that reject the primacy of sovereignty.


Ethics ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-236
Author(s):  
Martin Gardner

Theology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 113 (871) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
John Hughes
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2007 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 155-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Q. Mclnerny ◽  

2009 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-84
Author(s):  
Walter Nicgorski

AbstractThis essay treats the inspiration and nature of Yves Simon's philosophical life. His embrace of that life was importantly shaped by his engagement with the republican tradition in France, his passionate opposition to the fascist threat to France, and his later attachment to the aspirations of American democracy. However, his early philosophical interests took direction and inspiration from his encounter with Jacques Maritain who drew him to Thomism. His devotion to the truth was fierce, and he confronted honestly the threats to this defining quality of philosophical life from the pressures of social conformity and from the discouragement of seeing the inadequacies and disagreements in the history of philosophy. He came, as especially evident in his most influential book, Philosophy of Democratic Government, to esteem highly the virtue of prudence, seeking to protect it from both philosophy and social science.


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