Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
One. Why Is Political Philosophy Necessary?: Historical Considerations and a Response
Two. The Liberal Image of Man and the Concept of Autonomy: Beyond the Debate between Liberals and Communitarians
Three. The Democratic Constitutional State and the Common Good
Four. Auctoritas non veritas facit legem: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the Idea of the Constitutional State
Five. The Open Society and the New Laicism: Against the Soft Totalitarianism of Certain Secularist Thinking
Six. The Political and Economic Realities of the Modern World and Their Ethicaland Cultural Presuppositions: The Encyclical Centesimus annus
Seven. The Political Ethos of Constitutional Democracy and the Place of Natural Law in Public Reason: Rawls’s “Political Liberalism” Revisited
Eight. Rawlsian Public Reason, Natural Law, and the Foundation of Justice: A Response to David Crawford
Nine. Can Political Ethics Be Universalized? : Human Rights as a Global Project
Ten. Christian Secularity and the Culture of Human Rights
Eleven. Multicultural Citizenship in Liberal Democracy: The Proposals of C. Taylor, J. Habermas, and W. Kymlicka
Twelve. Christianity and Secularity: Past and Present of a Complex Relationship
Thirteen. Benedict XVI’s “Hermeneutic of Reform” and Religious Freedom
Fourteen. Capitalism, Free Market Economy, and the Common Good: The Role of the State in the Economy
Bibliography
Index