At the Limits of Political Philosophy: From "Brilliant Errors" to Things of Uncommon Importance

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Earlier versions of Chapter 2 can be found in Faith & Reason 16 (Spring 1990): 52-62; Chapter 5, in Divus Thomas, Piacenza, 92, no. 3-4 (1991), 273-79, and in The Politics ofHeaven and Hell: Christian Themes from Classical, Medieval, and Modern Political Philosophy (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1984), 83106 ; Chapter 6 in Gregorianum (Rome) 71, no. 1 (1990), 115-39; Chapter 10 in the Bulletin, Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (April 1987): 4-7; and Chapter 11, in vol. 8, Annual, Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, Notre Dame (1989): 59-74. The author wishes to thank these journals for permission to use them here. Kind appreciation is also due to George Carey, Michael Jackson , Glenn Tinder, and Jerome Hanus, who read and remarked most helpfully on this text in the various stages of its progress. In particular, I wish to thank David McGonagle, director of The Catholic University of America Press, and Susan Needham, staff editor, for their interest and perceptive help in bringing this work to completion. IX At the Limits ofPolitical Philosophy ...