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Author Behr, Thomas, 1958- author.

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

Publication Info. Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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Subject Taparelli d'Azeglio, Luigi, 1793-1862.
Taparelli d'Azeglio, Luigi, 1793-1862.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Subsidiarity -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Subsidiarity -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Christian sociology -- Catholic Church.
Christian sociology -- Catholic Church.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
Theology, Doctrinal.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Title Luigi Taparelli and the origins of modern Catholic social thought
Other Form: Print version: Behr, Thomas, 1958- Social justice and subsidiarity. Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019] 9780813231181 (DLC) 2019020755 (OCoLC)1104221319
ISBN 081323137X (electronic book)
9780813231372 (electronic book)
9780813231181 (hardcover)
0813231183 (hardcover)