Western creed, Western identity : essays in legal and social philosophy /
"In Western Creed, Western Identity, Jude P. Dougherty investigates the classical roots of Western culture and its religious sources in an effort to define its underlying intellectual and spiritual commitments. The essays were written from a single vantage point, one that has come to be identif...
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Washington, D.C. :
Catholic University of America Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Ralph McInerny
- 1. Western Creed, Western Identity
- 2. Christian Philosophy: A Sociological Category or an Oxymoron?
- 3. What Was Religion? The Demise of a Prodigious Power
- 4. Marx, Dewey, and Maritain: The Role of Religion in Society
- 5. John Courtney Murray on the Truths We Hold
- 6. Separating Church and State
- 7. Thomas on Natural Law: What Judge Thomas Did Not Say
- 8. Collective Responsibility
- 9. Accountability without Causality: Tort Litigation Reaches Fairy-Tale Levels
- 10. On the Justification of Rights Claims
- 11. The Necessity of Punishment
- 12. Professional Responsibility
- 13. Edith Stein: The Convert in Search of Illumination.
