Jacques Maritain’s Conception of Federational Europe

Abstract

As early as the beginning of the Second World War J. Maritain in his two articles presented the vision of a United Europe. Our continent in fact was always in the state of war. The 20^th century could have become a decline of European history, if the wars had not ended. J. Maritain's initiation was therefore to show the ways to peace. One way is unity of Europe. a formation of the federation of European nations. The article shows this way and its theoretical justification, something that can be found in his philosophical conception of politics.