"In The Philosopher's Calling: An Yves R. Simon Reader, Torre sets up a dialog between Yves Simon and his most competent commentators, all well-known contemporary Thomists. Simon was a political theorist, a student of Jacques Maritain, and one of the founders of 20th century Neo-Thomism. In 1958, the American Catholic Philosophical Association awarded him its Aquinas Medal, which had earlier been given to Maritain and Etienne Gilson; later awardees included Josef Pieper, Bernard Lonergan, Mortimer Adler, Karol Wojtyla ...
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"In The Philosopher's Calling: An Yves R. Simon Reader, Torre sets up a dialog between Yves Simon and his most competent commentators, all well-known contemporary Thomists. Simon was a political theorist, a student of Jacques Maritain, and one of the founders of 20th century Neo-Thomism. In 1958, the American Catholic Philosophical Association awarded him its Aquinas Medal, which had earlier been given to Maritain and Etienne Gilson; later awardees included Josef Pieper, Bernard Lonergan, Mortimer Adler, Karol Wojtyla (later Pope John Paul II), Alasdair MacIntyre, Eleonore Stump, and Remi Brague. Simon was also a visiting professor at Notre Dame from 1938 to 1948, and his papers are housed here today. Simon's work, however, is still little-known in English, and there is as yet no English biography of him. Michael Torre, in addition to providing an erudite and helpful introduction to Simon's life and thought, has selected key texts from Simon's entire oeuvre, dividing them into three sections: on knowledge, on freedom, and on community. The selections are long enough to be substantive and contain sustained and complete arguments. Each selection also has its own proper foreword by an eminent scholar, familiar with Simon's work, who lays out the necessary context for the reader. The result is a highly readable introduction to the thought of a key and underappreciated modern philosopher"--
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