Social justice and subsidiarity : Luigi Taparelli and the origins of modern catholic social thought. / Thomas C. Behr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behr, Thomas, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taparelli d'Azeglio, Luigi, 1793-1862.

Taparelli d'Azeglio, Luigi.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Social justice--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Social justice.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019]

Summary:

Luigi Taparelli, SJ, 1793-1862, in his Theoretical Treatise of Natural Right Based on Fact, 1840-43 , presents a neo-Thomistic approach to social, economic, and political sciences grounded in an integral conception of the human person as social animal but also as rational truth seeker.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Social justice reconsidered

Taparelli's realist social science

I. Taparelli and the age of ideology. The religious question from the Middle Ages to the nineteeth century ; Traditionalists and liberals in the Restorationist period ; Eclecticism and Taparelli's "conversion" to scholastic philosophy

II. Taparelli and the revival of scholastic natural law reasoning. The scholastic revival: the appeal of Thomism ; Metaphysics and methodoogy in the Saggio teroretico ; Taparelli and the development of modern Catholic social teaching

III. Social justice and subsidiarity. The problem of social justice ; Introduction to subsidiarity ; Genealogy of the idea of subsidiarity ; Natural, voluntary, and dutiful societies ; Authority and the common good ; Principles of subsidiarity in practice

IV. Social justice and subsidiarity as complementary principles. A coherent account of social justice ; Social justice and subsidiarity applied: social economics

Conclusion: Taparelli's realist social science. Summary of the argument ; The development of Catholic social teaching

Charts. 1. Self-interest rightly understood: the three motors of human will/action ; 2. Subsidiarity: sociality and hypotactical society ; 3. From natural right to subjective rights to social justice ; 4. Social justice, subsidiarity, and social economy

Appendix. Luigi Taparelli, SJ, "Treatise on subsidiarity"

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-3137-X

OCLC:

1140790894