Rectificación del humanismo

Abstract

This study links the crisis of humanism in the mid twentieth century,context in which the Lessons of Santander This was then doomed to be the contradiction of a subjectivist or totalitarian reduction. The salvation of the humanism, must come, said Maritain, by its integrative transformation, inclusive establishing theocentrism. An understanding integral of the human rearranges The relationship between the temporal and the sacral, between Christianity and democracy, between tolerance and respect for personal autonomy. Maritain both rectified secularist humanism (anthropocentric) as ranscendentalism that sought hegemony of the Catholic Church in the secular city, since to the personalist philosopher Christianity lies at another level: the inspiration and moral motivation, unassisted by all social privilege or political influence. (August 1934) which are the source of Humanisme intégral de Jacques Maritain (Paris 1936, Aubier), with other immediately following reflections on the subject as of Heidegger. The synthesis of Maritain, in continuity with it Christian tradition, especially Thomism, while showing the vitality of this, offers an example of novelty and capacity for dialogue of the French philosopher with the thought of his time, in order to the necessary rectification of the humanism.