Table of Contents:
  • 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.