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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779672603321

Autore

Rhonheimer Martin <1950->

Titolo

The common good of constitutional democracy [[electronic resource] ] : essays in political philosophy and on Catholic social teaching / / edited with an introduction by William F. Murphy Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8132-2010-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (577 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MurphyWilliam F

Disciplina

261.7

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-522) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.