Modern Dimensions of Jacques Maritains Political and Legal Personalism

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the discussion of the fundamental ideas of one of the most well-known French philosopher – Jacques Maritain concerning the problems of personalization and pluralism in modern democratic society. Exceptional actuality of the Maritain’s treatment of the problems of the relations between laic state and believes for modern democratic countries social field are the quintessence of the paper. The fundamental questions of the philosophy of law: personalism and pluralism in the light of the concepts and interpretations of one of the brightest representatives of the French philosophical and law schools Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882, Paris, France - April 28th 1973, Toulouse, France), which has become already the classic theorist are to be considered in the paper. Nowadays these issues seem to be particularly interesting and relevant: the transformation of sovereignty in the era of globalization, the political and the personal, mental and social transformation of the national identity and traditions on the one hand and the European integration and globalization on the other that are the challenges of the day.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s3p192