The Person and the Common Good

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The Person and the Common Good is a philosophical work by Jacques Maritain that explores the relationship between individual human dignity and the demands of social and political life within a Thomistic personalist framework.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
addresses foundations of human rights
limits of political authority
relationship between temporal and spiritual ends
role of the state in promoting the common good
tension between personal freedom and social order
author Jacques Maritain
centralConcept distinction between individual and person
primacy of the person over the state
social nature of the person
the common good as more than the sum of individual interests
the person as a spiritual and moral subject
countryOfOrigin France
genre Christian philosophy
political philosophy
social philosophy
hasReligiousOrientation Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
influencedBy Aristotelianism
surface form: Aristotelian philosophy

Christian personalism
St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas
languageOfOriginalWork French
mainTheme human dignity
relationship between the person and the common good
social and political life
notableFor defense of human dignity against totalitarianism
influence on Catholic social teaching
systematic account of the common good in personalist terms
originalTitle La personne et le bien commun
philosophicalApproach personalism
philosophicalPerspective Christian humanism
philosophicalSchool Thomistic personalism
philosophicalTradition Thomism
relatedConcept natural law ethics
solidarity
subsidiarity
relatedWorkByAuthor Integral Humanism
Man and the State
religiousContext Catholic thought
subjectMatter common good
natural law
personhood
political community
relationship between individual and society
rights and duties
timePeriodDiscussed modern political society

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Jacques Maritain notableWork The Person and the Common Good
Integral Humanism relatedWork The Person and the Common Good
Man and the State relatedWork The Person and the Common Good