Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions: Freedom With JusticeTransaction Publishers - 287 pages Increasingly, the religious leaders of the world are addressing problems of political economy, expressing concern about the poor. But will their efforts actually help the poor? Or harm them? Much depends, Michael Novak asserts, upon what kind of institutions are constructed, that is, upon realism and practicality. His thesis may be simply stated: Although the Catholic church during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set itself against liberalism as an ideology, it has slowly come to admire liberal institutions such as democracy and free markets. Between the Catholic vision of social justice and liberal institutions, Novak argues, there is a profound consonance (but not identity). First published in 1984 as Freedom with Justice, this new edition adds both a lengthy introduction carrying forward the original argument and a long concluding chapter on Pope John Paul II's controversial new encyclical of early 1988, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis. |
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... cause yields me that which is of far higher and more lasting value - the consciousness that I have laboured to expound and uphold laws , which , though they were not given amid the thunders of Sinai , are not less the commandments of ...
... cause yields me that which is of far higher and more lasting value - the consciousness that I have laboured to expound and uphold laws , which , though they were not given amid the thunders of Sinai , are not less the commandments of ...
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... cause for moral uneasiness . In the Christian tradition , however , " self - interest " has acquired a pejorative connotation . There are two reasons why this is so . First , Christianity strives to go " beyond the law . " Under this ...
... cause for moral uneasiness . In the Christian tradition , however , " self - interest " has acquired a pejorative connotation . There are two reasons why this is so . First , Christianity strives to go " beyond the law . " Under this ...
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... causes unneces- sary mischief . 2. ACQUISITIVENESS R. H. Tawney , the socialist historian , was the decisive force in select- ing acquisitiveness as the fundamental motive of capitalist economic ac- tivity ; he did not do so for ...
... causes unneces- sary mischief . 2. ACQUISITIVENESS R. H. Tawney , the socialist historian , was the decisive force in select- ing acquisitiveness as the fundamental motive of capitalist economic ac- tivity ; he did not do so for ...
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... Causes of The Wealth of Nations , in 1776 , it becomes evident that two streams which are analytically quite separate were often in reality intermixed . In front of one's face was the complex reality of the newly emerging social system ...
... Causes of The Wealth of Nations , in 1776 , it becomes evident that two streams which are analytically quite separate were often in reality intermixed . In front of one's face was the complex reality of the newly emerging social system ...
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... cause of wealth , there was no question of " productive justice . " The notion that , given the suffering inherent in almost universal poverty , economic de- velopment is a moral obligation could not arise . The feeling that an economy ...
... cause of wealth , there was no question of " productive justice . " The notion that , given the suffering inherent in almost universal poverty , economic de- velopment is a moral obligation could not arise . The feeling that an economy ...
Contents
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2 The catholic Critique of Liberalism | 19 |
3 The Failures of Liberalism | 22 |
The Development of Nations John XXIII and Paul VI | 126 |
1 The Priority of Individual Men | 127 |
2 At Last The Bill of Rights | 131 |
Paul VI | 133 |
4 Eighty Years After | 140 |
5 The Peace and Justice Establishment | 144 |
Creation Theology Pope John Paul II | 149 |
1 Man as the Subject of Work | 150 |
4 Social Justice | 25 |
5 Political Economy | 32 |
6 From Social Justice to Political Economy | 35 |
An Awareness of Sin The US Catholic Bishops and the US Economy | 39 |
1 Poverty and Welfare | 41 |
2 The Creation of Employment | 48 |
3 Temptations in the Desert | 54 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 18481982 | 59 |
The Architects of Catholic Social Thought | 61 |
1 Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler 18111877 | 62 |
2 Heinrich Pesch 18541926 and Solidarism | 69 |
A Quintessential Liberal John Stuart Mill | 81 |
2 Mills Principles of Political Economy | 87 |
3 Distribution and Other Issues | 96 |
From Politics to Economics Leo XIII and Pius XI | 108 |
2 Quadragesimo Anno | 110 |
3 Solidarism and Corporatism | 115 |
4 World War II | 123 |
2 The Priority of Labor Over Capital | 153 |
4 Ownership | 155 |
5 Invention and Discovery | 157 |
6 Creation Theology | 158 |
ETHOS VIRTUES AND INSTITUTIONS THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT | 165 |
Catholic Social Thought in the Future Toward a Theology of Commerce and Industry | 167 |
2 The Spirit of Economic Progress | 176 |
Liberation Theology in Practice | 183 |
The Communitarian Individual in American Practice | 195 |
1 Two Assumptions | 196 |
2 Associative Community | 197 |
3 Political Economy | 199 |
4 The Role of Mediating Structures | 201 |
International Economics | 209 |
Pope of Liberty Pope of Creativity John Paul II | 219 |
Notes | 253 |
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