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Mario O. D’Souza
The Person, Natural Law, and the Good of Pluralist Societies: Some Thoughts from Maritain’s Political Philosophy
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David J. Klassen
Application of the Natural Law in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
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Dimitrios Dentsoras
Seneca and the Old Stoics On Natural Law and Suicide
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Jason P. Blahuta
Maritain, Machiavelli, and the Problem of Machiavellianism: Maritain’s Challenge to Political Leaders
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Stephen Rocker
John Brown and the Morality of Sedition
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Paul F. Curry
Weber, Maritain and Torture: A Personalist Challenge to Weberian Politics
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William Sweet
Maritain, Just War Theory, and Responding to Campaigns of Terror
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Walter J. Schultz
Empowerment Without Sovereignty: Maritain’s Personalist Alternative To Hegemony
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Walter J. Schultz
Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris 1919 – 1933. By Stephen Schloesser
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John Lewis
Much Ado About Nonexistence, By A. P. Martinich and Avrum Stroll
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Mark Bronson
The Rise and Fall of the Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
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William Sweet
Catholicism, Freedom of Conscience, and Democracy
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In this paper I focus on one of the fundamental democratic freedoms – freedom of conscience – and see to what extent Catholicism is compatible or consistent with it and, by extension, with democracy in civil or political institutions. I draw primarily on recent ecclesial statements on the issue, but also on the philosophical views of Jacques Maritain. First, I outline briefly the view of democracy and freedom of conscience that putatively undergirds modern democratic societies, as well as the understanding of this freedom in Catholic thought. Next, I present the claim that there are some important differences in the way in which this freedom is described in Catholicism as distinct from dominant, secular democratic views. Third, I suggest that these differences, while real, do not sustain the claim of a radical difference in principle between freedom of conscience in recent Catholic thought and that found in documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I conclude that not only is the Catholic approach to freedom of conscience compatible with democracy in civil institutions, but democratic government may be an important way to develop values recognized by Catholicism as fundamental.
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Louis Perron
Maritain et la question du consensus social des sociétés démocratiques : accord pragmatique ou accord de fond?
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Leonard Ferry
The Allure of Consent and the Interpretation of Aquinas on Political Authority
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Marco Damonte
Confrontation Between Civilization, Religions and Professions of Faith
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Charles LePage
The Role of Religion in Society
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Leslie Armour
Maritain, Cudworth and The Problem of Political Theology
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Stephanie Boisvert
Compassion and Justice in The Merchant of Venice: A Political Critique of Care-Based Ethics
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François F. Savard
Revitalizing Aristotle's Notions of Corporeal Unity and Natural Law With Aquinas’ Principle of Mediated Inherence
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Robbie Moser
What Does It Mean To Be A Thomist?
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