Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political TheoryLexington Books, 2002 - 314 páginas Twentieth-century French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon pioneered new approaches to understanding and defending political democracy in the wake of two world wars. Rather than break from a religious tradition that seemed to struggle against modernity and certain forms of democratic theory and practice, these thinkers instead looked back to the philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to propel Catholic political philosophy forward. The profound influence of Maritain and Simon is manifest in the dramatic achievements of Vatican II and in the work of the scholars of political philosophy who learned from them. John P. Hittinger, one of the finest of these scholars, provides in Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace a comprehensive survey of the Thomists' contributions to contemporary political thought as well as a detailed analysis of their approach to democracy. Hittinger treats criticism of Maritain, including the work of Catholic political writer Aurel Kolnai, and discusses the alternative democratic visions of John Locke and David Richards. His portraits of thinkers who have wrestled with democracy in the Thomist tradition, such as Leo Strauss and John Paul II, are sensitive and engaging. Addressing questions of religion and philosophy broadly understood, the essays collected here offer a searching examination of democratic theory in the modern age. |
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... ideas on Church and State , with a special emphasis on the Vatican II document , Gaudium et Spes ( The Church in the Modern World ) . This latter document , at the time in- tended in some sense symbolically to unite action and ...
... ideas on Church and State , with a special emphasis on the Vatican II document , Gaudium et Spes ( The Church in the Modern World ) . This latter document , at the time in- tended in some sense symbolically to unite action and ...
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... ideas go and who in the contemporary world embodies them . Following Gilson's guidance in The Unity of Philosophical ... idea on reality as if reality has no proper being of itself . On the other hand , it does not deny some unifying and ...
... ideas go and who in the contemporary world embodies them . Following Gilson's guidance in The Unity of Philosophical ... idea on reality as if reality has no proper being of itself . On the other hand , it does not deny some unifying and ...
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... and freedom to which Maritain devoted so much attention have become rooted in unexpectedly dangerous intellectual flaws and notions . It is these latter ideas that are Foreword : " The Very Graciousness of Being " xvii.
... and freedom to which Maritain devoted so much attention have become rooted in unexpectedly dangerous intellectual flaws and notions . It is these latter ideas that are Foreword : " The Very Graciousness of Being " xvii.
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... ideas that seem far more dangerous than anything we had previ- ously in our society . This , too , is a problem of ... idea of what this flour- ishing can be will be discussed without excluding in principle the revela- tional responses ...
... ideas that seem far more dangerous than anything we had previ- ously in our society . This , too , is a problem of ... idea of what this flour- ishing can be will be discussed without excluding in principle the revela- tional responses ...
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... ideas is one of the most precious gifts I have received and am able to share . As I have taken on more teaching assignments I find myself increasingly drawn to interdisciplinary study and teaching in the hu- manities learning ever more ...
... ideas is one of the most precious gifts I have received and am able to share . As I have taken on more teaching assignments I find myself increasingly drawn to interdisciplinary study and teaching in the hu- manities learning ever more ...
Contenido
The Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain | 3 |
On Virtue with Genius The Achievement of Yves R Simon | 21 |
Jacques Maritain and Yves R Simons Use of Thomas Aquinas in Their Defense of Liberal Democracy | 35 |
Maritains Evaluation of Bourgeois Liberalism | 61 |
Three Philosophies of Human Rights Locke Richards and Maritain | 73 |
Why Locke Rejected an Ethics of Virtue and Turned to Utility | 87 |
The Two Lockes On the Foundation of Liberty in Locke | 97 |
David A J Richards Liberalism of the Autonomous Person | 129 |
John Paul II and the Exorcism of Descartes Ghost | 189 |
Maritain on the Intuition of Being | 203 |
Marion Montgomery and the Poets Recovery of Being | 213 |
Newman Theology and the Crisis in Liberal Education | 231 |
James V Schall on Faith Reason and Politics | 267 |
Maritain on the Cooperation of Church and State | 275 |
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Approaches to Democratic Equality | 143 |
Aurel Kolnai and the Metaphysics of Political Conservatism | 163 |
About the Author | 313 |
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Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory John P. Hittinger Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory John Hittinger Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory John Hittinger Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
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