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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book presents an engaging collection of essays exploring
""catholic"" and ""Catholic"" perspectives on American law -
catholic in their claims of universal truths, and Catholic in their
grounding in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. What
emerges is a model of human freedom and flourishing that has its
foundation in the transcendent vocation of each and every human
person. The 2000-year-old Catholic Church played a pivotal role in
the formation of the western legal culture. Does it have anything
of relevance left to offer that culture in the 21st century? The
contributors to Recovering Self-Evident Truths answer with a
resounding yes. The opening essays present the guiding premises of
the volume as a whole: human persons must be respected by
governments and law because their objective dignity arises from
being made in the image and likeness of God. Reasoning from these
premises, the next set of essays situates the person within
community, exploring the implications for the American legal system
of taking seriously Catholic understanding of subsidiarity,
solidarity, the common good, and the relationship between freedom
and truth. The next set of essays concludes the foundational
material by engaging dominant secular political and legal theory
from a Catholic perspective. With the foundation set, the essays in
the second half of the book explore eight specific substantive
areas of the law - Contract Law, Property Law, Tort Law, Criminal
Law, Labor Law, Family Law, Immigration Law, and International Law
- through a Catholic lens. ""Recovering Self-Evident Truths"" is
particularly timely: a majority of the justices on the United
States Supreme Court are Catholic; Catholics represent a pivotal
voting demographic in the American political landscape; and the
issue of religion and religious values in the public square is
hotly debated as some warn against a creeping theocracy. This book
demonstrates that religiously founded values can serve to provide
constructive proposals for building a more just society.
Using Josef Pieper's Leisure as a point of departure, the
contributors to this volume share a mutual concern for the
diminishing role of the liberal arts in Catholic higher education.
The overwhelming impression they share is that U.S. Catholic
universities, with notable exceptions, have forgotten the very goal
of university education, and especially Catholic university
education: to aid in forming young men and women to pursue the
truth and helping them to become freer persons.
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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