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116 Popular Culture Review of the symbolic order in whose light their individuated existence shines? Maritain’s medievalism, his sense of how history works, is a response to these concerns. Clearly, he accepts that the philosopher must also be a historian of philosophy and the historian must be a philosopher; however, the field Maritain creates by this equation is more easily accepted by philosophers than by historians since it is more difficult for a philosopher to forget that he/she must be a historian (this is the position Maritain associate with the neo-Thomist), than it i ́