Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of DemocracyKenneth L. Grasso, Gerard V. Bradley, Robert P. Hunt Rowman & Littlefield, 1995 - 271 pages "This book makes a very ambitious proposal. The proposal is that Catholic social thought can contribute significantly to revivifying the American experiment in liberal democracy. That there is a need, and urgent need, for such a revival is today widely recognized by thinkers across the political and philosophical spectrum. Some of the essays here are polemical and others apologetic, but the book taken all in all is a proposal. As such, it must make its case sometimes in conversation with and sometimes against other proposals that are advanced in the public square of democratic discourse." [Foreword]. |
Contents
Introduction Catholic Social Thought and the Quest for an American Public Philosophy | 1 |
The Image of Man in Catholic Thought | 15 |
Beyond Liberalism Human Dignity the Free Society and the Second Vatican Council | 29 |
Religion as Moral Duty and Civic Right Dignitatis Humanae on Religious Liberty | 59 |
Subsidiarity The Other Ground of Limited Government | 81 |
Catholic Social Thought the City and Liberal America | 97 |
Moral Truth the Common Good and Judicial Review | 115 |
Natural Law and International Order | 133 |
Personal Dignity and the Common Good A TwentiethCentury Thomistic Dialogue | 173 |
The Quest for the Historical Murray | 197 |
The Importance of Being Catholic Unsolicited Advice from a Protestant Bystander | 219 |
A Jewish Appreciation of Catholic Social Teaching | 235 |
Catholicism Liberalism and Communitarianism Concluding Reflections | 255 |
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About the Contributors | 269 |
Jacques Maritain and the Rapprochement of Liberalism and Communitarianism | 151 |
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