Jacques Maritain Center | University of Notre Dame

The mission of the Jacques Maritain Center takes inspiration from its namesake, Jacques Maritain, one of the most influential Catholic thinkers of the 20th century, whose wide-ranging work made signal contributions to the Thomistic revival, to Vatican II, and to the UN Declaration on Human Rights:

With Maritain as its model, the Jacques Maritain Center aims to foster deep intellectual conversations and world-class research on the perennial questions of human existence, drawing special inspiration from the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and Maritain’s own vision of “integral Christian humanism,” but also more broadly from the great traditions of human reasoning in conversation with faith.