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

Title
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.
Author
Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors
Murphy, William F.
Description
1 online resource (xxxvii, 535 p.)
Uniform Title
Common good of constitutional democracy (Online)
Alternative Title
Common good of constitutional democracy (Online)
Subject
  • Catholic Church > Doctrines
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-522) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2012030748
OCLC
ssj0000835103
Author
Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-
Title
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.
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-522) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Murphy, William F.
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