The common good of constitutional democracy : essays in political philosophy and on Catholic social teaching

The common good of constitutional democracy : essays in political philosophy and on Catholic social teaching / Martin Rhonheimer ; edited with an introduction by William F. Murphy Jr.

"The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy offers a rich collection of essays in political philosophy by Swiss philosopher Martin Rhonheimer. Like his other books in both ethical theory and applied ethics, which have recently been published in English, the essays included are distinguished by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-
Other Authors: Murphy, William F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Doctrines.
Catholic Church
Political science > Philosophy.
Christian sociology > Catholic Church.
Christianity and politics.
Christianity and politics > Catholic Church.
Democracy > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Democracy > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Economics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Economics > Religious aspects > Christianity.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Christian sociology > Catholic Church
Christianity and politics
Christianity and politics > Catholic Church
Democracy > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Democracy > Religious aspects > Christianity
Economics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Economics > Religious aspects > Christianity
Political science > Philosophy
Theology, Doctrinal
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Table of Contents:
  • Why is political philosophy necessary, historical considerations and a response
  • Liberal image of man and the concept of autonomy: beyond the debate between liberals and communitarians
  • Democratic constitutional state and the common good
  • Auctoritas Non Veritas Facit Legem: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the idea of the constitutional state
  • Open society and the new laicism: against the soft totalitarianism of certain secularist thinking
  • Political and economic realities of the modern world and their ethical and cultural presuppositions: the Encyclical Centesimus Annus
  • Political ethos of constitutional democracy and the place of natural law in public reason: Rawls's political liberalism revisited
  • Rawlsian public reason, natural law, and the foundation of justice: a response to David Crawford
  • Can political ethics be universalized? human rights as a global project
  • Christian secularity and the culture of human rights
  • Multicultural citizenship in liberal democracy: the proposals of C. Taylor, J. Habermas, And W. Kymlicka
  • Christianity and secularity: past and present of a complex relationship
  • Benedict XVI's hermeneutic of reform and religious freedom
  • Capitalism, free market economy, and the common good: the role of the state in the economy.

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