{"product_id":"three-reformers","title":"Three Reformers","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Jacques Maritain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree Reformers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eMartin Luther, René Descartes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: This trio of reformers, per Maritain, were the heirs to the Scholastic legacy in all its order and clarity. Yet, their penchant for more clearly apprehending particulars than universals led to the squandering of that inheritance in an experiment of sweeping reform. The result is their dominance of modernity, in which, as Maritain says, they “govern all the problems which torment it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWe are bound to the past in the intellectual order as in every other, and if we were to forget that we are animals which are specifically political, we should be surprised to discover how historically we think, how traditional we are, even when we are claiming to make all things new.\u003c\/em\u003e” \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e–J\u003c\/span\u003eacques Maritain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWritten with Maritain’s typical perspicacity, \u003ci\u003eThree Reformers: Luther, Descartes, Rousseau\u003c\/i\u003e is fascinating both as biography and philosophy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Maritain\u003c\/b\u003e (1882–1973) was perhaps the greatest Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century. A convert, along with his wife Raïssa, from agnosticism to Catholicism, Maritain wrote extensively on metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of history—all with the guiding inspiration of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \u0026amp; E-book:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE-book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Immediately following purchase, an .epub file and a .mobi (Kindle) file are available for download.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1950970964\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51320589123872,"sku":"978-1950970964","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"E-book","offer_id":51320589156640,"sku":"978-1950970965","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/3678\/2112\/files\/Covers174-1.jpg?v=1773076048","url":"https:\/\/treewee.store\/products\/three-reformers","provider":"Tree of Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}