Jacques Maritain
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Sep 13, 2026
Robert BarronGUEST
Um, no, no, we're not angels.
Robert BarronGUEST
Uh, it was Jacques Maritain that said that, that much of modernity, both in, in its religious and secular expressions, is a kind of angelism.
Robert BarronGUEST
Right? It turns us more into angels.
Robert BarronGUEST
And, um, we're not angels, and so we should pray like embodied, uh, spirits.
Larry ChappHOST
So that's, I mean, the reason why I bring it up is that Bouyer was part of, I mean, there were several.
Larry ChappHOST
I mean, Jacques Maritain ended up teaching in the United States.
Larry ChappHOST
Joseph Pieper ended up teaching in the United States.
Larry ChappHOST
You know, Bouyer comes over for a while to the United States.
Thomas MirusHOST
For a craftsman, as such, is commendable not for the will with which he does a work, but for the quality of the work, unquote.
Thomas MirusHOST
This is why, as Jacques Maritain remarked, quote, Oscar Wilde was a good Thomist when he wrote, the fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose, unquote.
Thomas MirusHOST
So when, after having been moved and edified by a work of art, we make some jarring discovery about the artist's personal life, we need not throw out the art itself.
Thomas MirusHOST
This is not only because, as St. Thomas noted, the virtue of art is distinct from the moral virtues, but also because we recognize God working through the sinful creature.
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Thomas MirusHOST
So I think any era can produce good art, but I think the absolute great works of art history tend to be the product of a lot of other good art and good artists and a broader culture in which this person can rise to their full potential.
Thomas MirusHOST
I think, yeah, there's so many different things you could say about the effect of art on culture.
Thomas MirusHOST
One thing I would caution against, Jacques Maritain says this in, I think, a footnote in Creative Intuition and Art and Poetry maybe.
Thomas MirusHOST
He's complaining about some critic who was sort of doing this simplistic diagnosis of like these are the ideological problems in this cultural period and therefore these are the ideological problems that must therefore be reflected in all its art.
Thomas MirusHOST
For a craftsman, as such, is commendable not for the will with which he does a work, but for the quality of the work, unquote.
Thomas MirusHOST
This is why, as Jacques Maritain remarked, quote, Oscar Wilde was a good Thomist when he wrote, the fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose, unquote.
Thomas MirusHOST
So when, after having been moved and edified by a work of art, we make some jarring discovery about the artist's personal life, we need not throw out the art itself.
Thomas MirusHOST
This is not only because, as St. Thomas noted, the virtue of art is distinct from the moral virtues, but also because we recognize God working through the sinful creature.
18 MINS LATER
Thomas MirusHOST
So I think any era can produce good art, but I think the absolute great works of art history tend to be the product of a lot of other good art and good artists and a broader culture in which this person can rise to their full potential.
Thomas MirusHOST
I think, yeah, there's so many different things you could say about the effect of art on culture.
Thomas MirusHOST
One thing I would caution against, Jacques Maritain says this in, I think, a footnote in Creative Intuition and Art and Poetry maybe.
Thomas MirusHOST
He's complaining about some critic who was sort of doing this simplistic diagnosis of like these are the ideological problems in this cultural period and therefore these are the ideological problems that must therefore be reflected in all its art.
Dan HuggerGUEST
And I think you need people like that.
Dan HuggerGUEST
Jacques Maritain, the famous Catholic theologian, came to America and he wrote a book actually, Reflections on America.
Dan HuggerGUEST
And he talked about in that book about how, you know, can we ever have a Christian civilization again? Could it happen in America? And he said, you know, ultimately I'm hopeful, but it'll be realized by, you know, you'll need saints and wonder workers to do it.
Dan HuggerGUEST
Just like you will need in a religious revival, saints and wonder workers to do it.
Darrick TaylorGUEST
I think all the evidence has probably gotten worse.
Darrick TaylorGUEST
You know, at the beginning of my essay, I came across in Jacques Maritain's book, this passage where he talks about this, this sort of, this idea that the church just, I don't know, it's like a flip switched in the 1960s, where before there was this idea that the church has all the answers, and now we have none, and we need to...
Darrick TaylorGUEST
We need to adapt to everything that comes along in secular society, I guess.
Darrick TaylorGUEST
It really is baffling.
Darrick TaylorGUEST
There's almost like this sense you're worshipping the world.
Darrick TaylorGUEST
Very strange.
Robert McTeigueHOST
And let's be clear that Jacques Maritain was a great friend of Pope Paul VI and was himself very enthusiastic about at least the stated intentions of the Council.
Robert McTeigueHOST
And in the immediate aftermath, he found to be right.
Larry ChappHOST
Even a, a Garrigou-Lagrange or, or Lacordaire or Journet, they wouldn't make such a radical claim like that either.
Larry ChappHOST
I know Jacques Maritain, for example, didn't make such a radical claim.
George CorbettGUEST
Yeah.
George CorbettGUEST
Yes.
Tzvi SinenskyGUEST
That's, that's not traditional Judaism.
Tzvi SinenskyGUEST
He, he quotes a, I think by the name of Jacques Maritain, who coined this term chronolatry.
Tzvi SinenskyGUEST
Chronolatry, right? So the worship of that which is chronos, that which is new, right? And he says, "That's not who we are, but that's who people think we are because it's, you know, called modern Orthodoxy." So he, he, you know, he didn't love any of these.
Tzvi SinenskyGUEST
Um, anyhow, there's a lot more to say about that, but- He, on this issue, so he, he's- there are two pieces that were essential to him on the substantive issue, leaving aside the name changes and all that, and what it means to be pa- to be, uh, to be moderate, um, but still impassioned.
Alice von HildebrandSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And to obey is a form of freedom.
Alice von HildebrandSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, it was Psichari, this friend of Maritain, who had led a very bad life and then entered, found the, the, uh, I mean, became a monk, uh, in the desert and died shortly after his conversion.
Alice von HildebrandSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he said, "I obey because I want to be free." Now, this implies that you obey to God and to legitimate authority.
Alice von HildebrandSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But if you obey to the devil, then you're badly off, of course.
Robert BarronHOST
Edith Stein loved the Eucharist.
Robert BarronHOST
Jacques Maritain, maybe not a household name anymore, but one of the great Catholic intellectuals of the last century, a French philosopher.
Robert BarronHOST
Maritain traveled the world, often came to this country, by the way.
Robert BarronHOST
I think he was in Collegeville a number of times.
Robert BarronHOST
Anyway, Maritain, despite his world travels, was based in Paris.
Robert BarronHOST
And when he was home, he would often journey at night up to Montmartre, a beautiful hill that overlooks Paris, at the top of which is the great church of Sacré-Cœur, the, the Sacred Heart.
Robert BarronHOST
And there Jacques Maritain, the great philosopher, would spend the entire night in Eucharistic adoration.
Robert BarronHOST
The Blessed Sacrament, by the way, has been adored continually in that church since the late nineteenth century.
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