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The common good of constitutional democracy

Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

The common good of constitutional democracy essays in political philosophy and on Catholic social teaching / [electronic resource] : edited by William F. Murphy Jr. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (560 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Catholic Church--Doctrines.


Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Economics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Democracy--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Christianity and politics--Catholic Church.
Christianity and politics.
Christian sociology--Catholic Church.
Political science--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

JA71 / .R465 2013

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