Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory

Foreword: "The Very Graciousness of Being /James V. Schall --Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon: Responding to the Political Crisis of the Twentieth Century --The Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain --On Virtue with Genius: The Achievement of Yves R. Simon --Thomism, Liberty, and Democracy --Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon's Use of Thomas Aquinas in Their Defense of Liberal Democracy --Maritain's Evaluation of Bourgeois Liberalism --Three Philosophies of Human Rights: Locke, Richards, and Maritain --Why Locke Rejected an Ethics of Virtue and Turned to Utility --The Two Lockes: On the Foundation of Liberty in Locke --David A.J. Richards: Liberalism of the Autonomous Person --Approaches to Democratic Equality --Aurel Kolnai and the Metaphysics of Political Conservatism --Wisdom and Grace --John Paul II and the Exorcism of Descartes' Ghost --Maritain on the Intuition of Being --Marion Montgomery and the Poet's Recovery of Being --Newman, Theology, and the Crisis in Liberal Education --James V. Schall on Faith, Reason, and Politics --Maritain on the Cooperation of Church and State.