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"In Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile, Jude P. Dougherty shares his lifetime interest in and study of Maritain with readers. He offers the most complete introduction to Maritain yet to be published, highlighting Maritain's many contributions to philosophy. Throughout, the reader gains a clear sense of Maritain the man, his relationships with other notable figures of his time, and his engagement in many of the debates of the twentieth century."--Jacket

In Wretched Aristotle: Using the Past to Rescue the Future, Jude P. Dougherty offers an intriguing reexamination of this crisis in contemporary times. Situating his argument in the context of ongoing debate concerning the nature of the public philosophy that underpins ideas of freedom, Dougherty identifies the essential features of Western culture through a series of interrelated essays. Each essay reinforces the idea that modernity cannot be understood apart from its break with classical antiquity

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Religion and Society -- 1. Western Creed, Western Identity -- 2. Christian Philosophy: A Sociological Category or an Oxymoron? -- 3. What Was Religion? The Demise of a Prodigious Power -- 4. Marx, Dewey, and Maritain: The Role of Religion in Society -- 5. John Courtney Murray on the Truths We Hold -- 6. Separating Church and State -- 7. Thomas on Natural Law: What Judge Thomas Did Not Say -- Part II. The Law and Society -- 8. Collective Responsibility -- 9. Accountability without Causality: Tort Litigation Reaches Fairy-Tale Levels -- 10. On the Justification of Rights Claims -- 11. The Necessity of Punishment -- 12. Professional Responsibility -- Part III. Faith and Reason -- 13. Edith Stein: The Convert in Search of Illumination -- 14. Maritain at the Cliff's Edge: From Antimoderne to Le Paysan -- 15. John Paul II, Defender of Faith and Reason -- 16. The Interior Life -- Bibliography -- Index.

Abstract: The highly positive reception accorded John Paul II's Fides et Ratio, indeed the attention given by the secular media to most of his writings, attests to the need that many have for spiritual nourishment as the intellectual and cultural influence of religion wanes in a country once thought to be Christian. The decline has been long in the making and mirrors the European experience of the past century. The Spanish-born, Harvard University professor George Santayana, writing in 1937 for an American audience, observed: The present age is a critical one and interesting to live in. The civilization characteristic of Christendom has not disappeared, yet another civilization has begun to take its place. We still understand the value of religious faith [.] On the other hand the shell of Christendom is broken. The unconquerable mind of the East, the pagan past, the industrial socialistic future confront it with equal authority. Our whole life and mind is saturated with the slow upward filtration of a new spirit —that of an emancipated, atheistic, international democracy1 . In the early decades of this century that type of judgment may have required the perceptiveness of a Santayana. Today it is universally acknowledged.