Yves René Marie Simon (March 14, 1903 – May 11, 1961) was a French Catholic political philosopher.

Life

Simon studied under Jacques Maritain at the Institut Catholique de Paris. He taught at the Institut Catholique de Lille from 1930 to 1938. In 1938, he came to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, as a visiting professor. He was unable to return to France because of World War II, and after the war he remained as a professor at Notre Dame until 1948. He then joined the Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago. He remained at the University of Chicago until retiring in 1958 due to illness. He died of cancer in South Bend, Indiana on May 11, 1961. In 1975, Maurice Cranston called him one of the world's "most original and distinguished political theorists."

Simon left many materials unfinished at his death, and many of his publications have only appeared after his death. His son, Anthony O. …Read more on Wikipedia