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- Title
JACQUES MARITAIN AND EDUARDO FREI MONTALVA: THE PROPHETIC FACTOR OF DEMOCRACY.
- Authors
Wilson, Catherine E.
- Abstract
Eduardo Frei Montalva, co-founder of the Christian Democratic Party and President of Chile, represented for Jacques Maritain, French neo-Thomist philosopher, an example of prophetic leadership in contemporary times. According to Maritain, modem democracy could not survive without a profound spiritual revolution of political leadership-the "prophetic factor" of democracy-which he observed in Frei as a public official, senator, and ultimately the President of the Republic of Chile (1964-1970). Under his famed "Revolution in Liberty," Frei endeavored to meld socio-economic reforms with an effort to build a more participatory democratic culture in his native land. Guided by Maritain's political philosophy, Frei's initiatWes set into motion the possibility of a "third way" of politics in the Southern hemisphere. In the end, this revolution ended in political disappointment due to economic stagnation, social disruption, political infighting, and the impractical idealism of Christian democracy itself.
- Subjects
CHILE; FREI Montalva, Eduardo, 1911-1982; CHRISTIAN democratic parties; MARITAIN, Jacques, 1882-1973; DEMOCRACY
- Publication
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2009, Vol 21, Issue 1/2, p83
- ISSN
0890-0132
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/jis2009211/25