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Empirical Foundations of the Common Good - What Theology Can Learn from Social Science (Hardcover)
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Empirical Foundations of the Common Good - What Theology Can Learn from Social Science (Hardcover)
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What has social science learned about the common good? Can that
knowledge improve the views of the common good held by philosophers
and theologians? Would humanists ever even alter their definitions
of the common good based on what social scientists say? Most view
the assumptions undergirding social science as inadequate to a full
understanding of human life. In this volume, six social scientists,
with backgrounds in economics, political science, sociology, and
policy analysis, speak about what their disciplines have to
contribute to discussions within Catholic social thought about the
common good. Two theologians then examine the insights of social
science, including such challenging assertions as: that theology
too often ignores the data of everyday life, that it is overly
irenic, that it neither understands nor appreciates the unplanned
order arising from individual interactions, and that it does not
grasp how contention among self-interested nations and persons can
be a more effective path to the common good than simply advocating
cooperation and brotherly love. This volume's interplay of social
scientific and religious views is a unique contribution to
contemporary discussion of what constitutes "the common good."
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