Belgian Catholic Philosopher
1905–1994
Arouca Press Presents
Marcel De Corte
Catholic Thomist · Philosopher of Reality · Critic of Modern Dissociety
Marcel De Corte remains one of the great Catholic Thomistic thinkers of the twentieth century, yet he is still little known in the English-speaking world.
Arouca Press is the first publisher to translate his works into English, opening to new readers a body of writing marked by philosophical realism, moral seriousness, and a penetrating analysis of modernity.
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The image of De Corte, obtained from his writings in Itinéraires, has remained with me, with his devastating analysis of the epistemological reversal of modernity; the irredeemable crisis of civilization; the corrupting character of politics founded on the “religion of democracy”; and the tragedy which was—and still is—the crisis of the post-conciliar Church.
Miguel Ayuso
Professor of Political Science, Comillas Pontifical University
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The Mind of Marcel De Corte
Marcel De Corte was not a system-builder in the modern sense. He was a realist: a philosopher of being, of common sense, of organic society, of the cardinal virtues, and of the Christian order. His critique of modern civilization is severe because it is rooted in a prior love—love for truth, for reality, for the created order, for the common good, and for the supernatural destiny of man.
His works examine the great modern inversions: intelligence severed from reality, society dissolved into mass collectivities, politics reduced to ideology, technique elevated above wisdom, and Christianity tempted to accommodate itself to the very civilization it is meant to judge and convert.
Thomistic Realism
De Corte’s thought begins from the real: the created order, human nature, common sense, and the metaphysical structure of being.
Moral Order
His works on prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance recover virtue as the living formation of intellect, will, and society.
Crisis of Civilization
De Corte diagnosed the collapse of organic society, the tyranny of abstraction, and the deformation of intelligence.
De Corte in His Own Words
“I have not philosophized except via my reading of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.”
Intelligence in Danger of Death
Why Read De Corte?
The Arouca Press De Corte Library
Recovering one of the great Catholic Thomistic voices of the twentieth century for English-speaking readers.
