The common good of constitutional democracy : essays in political philosophy and on Catholic social teaching / Martin Rhonheimer ; edited with an introduction by William F. Murphy Jr.
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.
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