Abstract

This article focuses on Maritain put forward the concept of self to, in order to understand Maritain some unfathomable thought, we must use to understand the thinking of Thomas Aquinas to help understand Maritain. Maritain in the "conquest of freedom," the article discusses what is freedom. Maritain pointed to in order to properly understand the freedom and the concept of personal freedom and independence are inseparable, so the thought of Thomas Aquinas, the will as nature and will as a rational concept is necessary of. This article discusses two levels, one man and individuality, and second, the will and the will of nature as rational as the purpose of two parts, first consider Maritain in the establishment of individual and personality differences between all, and secondly, by Thomas Aquinas on the understanding within the context of what he calls free, including the context of philosophy and theology