The Person and the Common Good

Presenting with moving insight the relations between man, as a person and as an individual, and the society of which he is a part, Maritain''s treatment of a lasting topic speaks to this generation as well as those to come. Maritain employs the personalism rooted in Aquinas''s doctrine to distinguish between social philosophy centered in the dignity of the human person and that centered in the primacy of the individual and the private good.