The Degrees of Knowledge

By: Jacques Maritain, Ralph McInerny (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 January 1995 | Edition Number 7

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Distinguer pour unir, ou Les degres du savoir was first published in 1932 by Jacques Maritain. In this new translation of The Degrees of Knowledge, Ralph McInerny attempts a more careful expression of Maritain's original masterpiece than previous translations. Maritain proposes a hierarchy of the forms of knowledge by discussing the degrees of rational and suprarational understanding. Nine appendices, some longer than the chapters of the book, advance Maritain's thought, often by taking on criticism of earlier editions of the work. Rightly called Maritain's cardinal work, The Degrees of Knowledge is a magnificent and sagacious achievement. Jacques Maritain's masterpiece proposes a hierarchy of forms of knowledge that culminate in mystical experience and wisdom, which is a gift of the Holy Ghost. Maritain argues that the intellectual life is meant to be complemented by the spiritual life and should culminate in sanctity.

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“One can open The Degrees of Knowledge to almost any page and discover there something worth thinking about.” —Pastoral Life

“The Degrees of Knowledge represents one of the most complete articulations of Maritain’s incorporation of the thinking of Saint Thomas Aquinas into his work.” —The Library Quarterly

“The Degrees of Knowledge remains interesting and valuable because it deals with a theme that is characteristic of, but antedates, much of postmodern thought—i.e., the critique of ‘modern’ epistemology. This edition uses the elegant and definitive English translation prepared under the direction of Fr. Gerald B. Phelan.” —études maritainiennes

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