This volume collects nine lectures, originally delivered in 1938, by French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), presenting the view of his democratic brand of Thomistic
Scholasticism on the nature of the human political order to audiences in the United States. The lectures reflect on the nature of the human person, the deficiencies of materialistic theories of
humanity (particularly as derived from "false interpretation of Freud's theories"), and the Thomist perspective on democracy and the political landscape of the inter-war period. This is a
paperbound edition of a work first published in 1940. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
