Rhonheimer, Martin,  1950- <br/><br/>
The common good of constitutional democracy  essays in political philosophy and on Catholic social teaching /  [electronic resource] : 
Martin Rhonheimer ; edited with an introduction by William F. Murphy Jr. 
 - Washington, D.C. :  Catholic University of America Press,  c2013. 
 - 1 online resource (xxxvii, 535 p.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Why is political philosophy necessary, historical considerations and a response -- Liberal image of man and the concept of autonomy: beyond the debate between liberals and communitarians -- Democratic constitutional state and the common good -- Auctoritas Non Veritas Facit Legem: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the idea of the constitutional state -- Open society and the new laicism: against the soft totalitarianism of certain secularist thinking -- Political and economic realities of the modern world and their ethical and cultural presuppositions: the Encyclical Centesimus Annus -- Political ethos of constitutional democracy and the place of natural law in public reason: Rawls's political liberalism revisited -- Rawlsian public reason, natural law, and the foundation of justice: a response to David Crawford -- Can political ethics be universalized? human rights as a global project -- Christian secularity and the culture of human rights -- Multicultural citizenship in liberal democracy: the proposals of C. Taylor, J. Habermas, And W. Kymlicka -- Christianity and secularity: past and present of a complex relationship -- Benedict XVI's hermeneutic of reform and religious freedom -- Capitalism, free market economy, and the common good: the role of the state in the economy. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813220109 (electronic bk.) 0813220106 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Catholic Church--Doctrines.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political science--Philosophy.<br/>Christian sociology--Catholic Church.<br/>Christianity and politics.<br/>Christianity and politics--Catholic Church.<br/>Democracy--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.<br/>Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Economics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.<br/>Economics--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues<br/>RELIGION / Christianity / General
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JA71  / .R465 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>261.7