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

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface xi Introduction by William F. Murphy Jr. xiii 1. Why Is Political Philosophy Necessary? Historical Considerations and a Response 1 2. The Liberal Image of Man and the Concept of Autonomy: Beyond the Debate between Liberals and Communitarians 36 3. The Democratic Constitutional State and the Common Good 72 4. Auctoritas non veritas facit legem: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the Idea of the Constitutional State 142 5. The Open Society and the New Laicism: Against the Soft Totalitarianism of Certain Secularist Thinking 161 6. The Political and Economic Realities of the Modern World and Their Ethical and Cultural Presuppositions: The Encyclical Centesimus annus 173 7. The Political Ethos of Constitutional Democracy and the Place of Natural Law in Public Reason: Rawls’s “Political Liberalism” Revisited 191 8. Rawlsian Public Reason, Natural Law, and the Foundation of Justice: A Response to David Crawford 265 9. Can Political Ethics Be Universalized? Human Rights as a Global Project 292 10. Christian Secularity and the Culture of Human Rights 304 11. Multicultural Citizenship in Liberal Democracy: The Proposals of C. Taylor, J. Habermas, and W. Kymlicka 316 12. Christianity and Secularity: Past and Present of a Complex Relationship 342 13. Benedict XVI’s “Hermeneutic of Reform” and Religious Freedom 429 14. Capitalism, Free Market Economy, and the Common Good: The Role of the State in the Economy 455 Bibliography 501 Index 523 vi Contents ...