André Marc
André Marc SJ (20 October 1892 – 12 March 1961), was a French Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and professor at the Catholic University of Paris (1950–1960). He influenced contemporary Jesuits, most notably Pope Francis.[1]
Biography
André Marc was born in Caen, Calvados. He joined the Society of Jesus on 23 September 1910 and did his novitiate in England, where the French Jesuits were in exile. At the end of the usual course of spiritual and intellectual formation, he was ordained a priest on 24 October 1923 in Hastings, Sussex. He then did a "biennium", i.e. two years of special theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, where in 1928 he defended a thesis on judgement.
Initially a teacher of human sciences, Father Marc taught psychology, moral philosophy and ontology at the Jesuit Philosophat of St Helier in Jersey (Channel Islands) and, after returning to the continent (1939), Vals-près-le-Puy, then Mongré and Chantilly.
In 1933, he published his major work of neo-Thomistic theology: L'idée de l'être chez saint Thomas et dans la scolastique postérieure. From 1950 to 1960, Father Marc held the chair of rational psychology at the Catholic Institute of Paris. His thinking can be summed up in the trilogy Psychologie réflexive, Dialectique de l'agir and Dialectique de l'affirmation.
He influenced several generations of contemporary Jesuits. Marc was attentive to the questions and problems of modern and contemporary philosophy. Methol Ferré highlighted Marc's works — Dialectique de l'Agir (1954) and Méthode et Dialectique (1956) — "more than the Hegelian dialectic", and the text in which "the Thomistic dialectical ontology of being [is] magnificently developed."[2]
He died in Chantilly, Oise at the age of 68.
See also
Works
- L'Idée de l'Être chez Saint Thomas et dans la Scolastique Postérieure (1933)
- Sœur Marie-Thérèse, Étudiante et Dominicaine Enseignante (1935)
- Études de Métaphysique et de Logique (1935; chapter)
- Psychologie Réflexive (1949)
- Dialectique de l'Affirmation (1952)
- Quelques Constantes de la Pensée Philosophique (1952; chapter)
- Dialectique de l'Agir (1954)
- Raison Philosophique et Religion Révélée (1955)
- Aspects de la Dialectique (1956; chapter)
- L'Être et l'Esprit (1958)
- Raison et Conversion Chrétienne (1961)
Notes
- ↑ Borghesi, Massimo (2018). The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Intellectual Journey. Colleville: Liturgical Press, p. 90.
- ↑ Fessard, Gaston (1960). De l'actualité historique, vol. 1, À la recherche d'une méthode; vol. 2, Progressisme chrétien et Apostolat ouvrier. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1960); Fessard (1963). El ser y el espiritu. Madrid: Gredos.
References
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- Fontan, Pierre (1965). "L'Itinéraire intérieur du P. André Marc. Introduction à son œuvre", Archives de philosophie, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 181–205.
- Gilbert, Paul (2020). Jésuites et philosophes: des origines à nos jours. Namur: Lessius, pp. 116–20.
- Grenet, Paul-Bernard (1961). "Approches thomistes de l'historicité par le R.P. André Marc, S.J.," L'Ami du Clergé, Vol. LXXI, pp. 529–35.
- McCool, Gerald A. (1963). "Phenomenology and Dialectic: The Philosophy of André Marc, S.J.," Modern Schoolman, Vol. XL, No. 4, pp. 321–45.
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- Yagüe, Joaquín (1966). "El ser y la persona en la filosofía neotomista de A. Marc," Augustinus, Vol. XI, No. 42/43, pp. 271–78.
