ABSTRACT
Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges, O.P., was a French Catholic philosopher born 1863 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He became professor of moral philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris and founded the Revue Thomiste. He wrote a number of books dealing with the spiritual life, but also completed a two-volume work on St. Thomas Aquinas. Virtue and the intellectual life are connected, according to Sertillanges, because truth and the good are two sides of a coin. Life is a unity, he says, and it is held together by love, which is the starting point for everything. We are fashioned by what we love, and this will be true of those who love truth as much as it is for anyone else. Although Sertillanges is cautious about being too prescriptive about the kinds of specialisations that should be part of the intellectual life, he is consistent in his insistence that truth can be discovered in quite unexpected places.
