Cilvēka personas brīvība un kopīgais labums Žaka Maritēna filosofijas skatījumā = The Human Person’s Freedom and the Common Good in Jacques Maritain’s Philosophy

In his essays under the title “The Person and the Common Good” (the French edition 1947), Jacques Maritain extensively discussed the mutual relation and interdependence between a human person and a political community. The human person is a part of a political community and inferior to it, for he or she receives basic human goods from the common good, which itself is constituted by human persons. Nevertheless, a human person is also superior to the political community due to an ultimate fulfilment of human existence in direct relationship to God and regarding matters related to the philosophical categories such as truth, good and beauty. If the human person’s freedom to strive for these transcendental goods is respected on behalf of the political community, the common good can be properly maintained and continues to serve the community. Maritain’s position contains practical implications for the contemporary discussions of political philosophy on freedom of conscience and religious freedom, and freedom of expression.