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The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy offers a rich collection of essays in political philosophy by Swiss philosopher Martin Rhonheimer. Like his other books in both ethical theory and applied ethics, which have recently been published in English, the essays included are distinguished by the philosophical rigor and meticulous attention to the primary and secondary literature of the various topics discussed

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 2-5
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xiii-xxxvii
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  1. One: Why Is Political Philosophy Necessary?: Historical Considerations and a Response
  2. pp. 1-35
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  1. Two: The Liberal Image of Man and the Concept of Autonomy: Beyond the Debate between Liberals and Communitarians
  2. pp. 36-71
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  1. Three: The Democratic Constitutional State and the Common Good
  2. pp. 72-141
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  1. Four: Auctoritas non veritas facit legem: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the Idea of the Constitutional State
  2. pp. 142-160
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  1. Five: The Open Society and the New Laicism: Against the Soft Totalitarianism of Certain Secularist Thinking
  2. pp. 161-172
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  1. Six: The Political and Economic Realities of the Modern World and Their Ethicaland Cultural Presuppositions: The Encyclical Centesimus annus
  2. pp. 173-190
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  1. Seven: The Political Ethos of Constitutional Democracy and the Place of Natural Law in Public Reason: Rawls’s “Political Liberalism” Revisited
  2. pp. 191-264
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  1. Eight: Rawlsian Public Reason, Natural Law, and the Foundation of Justice: A Response to David Crawford
  2. pp. 265-291
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  1. Nine: Can Political Ethics Be Universalized? : Human Rights as a Global Project
  2. pp. 292-303
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  1. Ten: Christian Secularity and the Culture of Human Rights
  2. pp. 304-315
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  1. Eleven: Multicultural Citizenship in Liberal Democracy: The Proposals of C. Taylor, J. Habermas, and W. Kymlicka
  2. pp. 316-341
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  1. Twelve: Christianity and Secularity: Past and Present of a Complex Relationship
  2. pp. 342-428
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  1. Thirteen: Benedict XVI’s “Hermeneutic of Reform” and Religious Freedom
  2. pp. 429-454
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  1. Fourteen: Capitalism, Free Market Economy, and the Common Good: The Role of the State in the Economy
  2. pp. 455-499
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 501-522
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 523-535
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