A Moral Enterprise

by Grasso, Kenneth L.; Hunt, Robert P.; Canavan, Francis

• ISBN13: 9781882926800
• ISBN10: 1882926803
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Isi Books

Summary

Francis P. Canavan has been described by Gerard V. Bradley as "one of the great political theorists of the past thirty years, " and Robert P. George has hailed him as our "most incisive and trenchant critic" of liberal judicial activism. In this collection of essays by colleagues, admirers, and former students of Father Canavan, the intellectual and moral foundations of democratic government are explored, especially in light of Canavan's Burke scholarship, his contributions to Catholic social thought, his critique of the liberal intellectual tradition, and his analysis of the problems that confront a pluralistic society such as ours.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction The Achievement of Francis Canavan	xi
Kenneth L. Grasso
Robert P. Hunt
Edmund Burke and British Views of the American Revolution: A Conflict over Rights of Sovereignty	1	(16)
Peter J. Stanlis
Burke and Human Rights	17	(20)
F. P. Lock
Edmund Burke on Tradition and Human Progress: Ordered Liberty and the Politics of Change	37	(22)
Joseph Pappin III
The Problematic Relation between Practical and Theoretical Virtue in Aristotle's	59	(24)
Nicomachean Ethics
Germaine Paulo Walsh
The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in the Last Two Centuries	83	(24)
Gerald A. McCool
Defending Authority in a Cynical Age	107	(20)
Joseph Koterski
Questioning the New Natural Law Theory: The Case of Religious Liberty as Defended by Robert P. George in Making Men Moral	127	(16)
Keith J. Pavlischek
Catholicism, Liberalism, and Religious Liberty	143	(22)
Robert P. Hunt
Church and State in Liberal America: Locke and Tocqueville Revisited	165	(20)
Thomas A. Spragens Jr.
Liberalism and Marriage: The Pluralist Game Revisited	185	(18)
Gerard V. Bradley
Can Liberalism Cast Out Liberalism?	203	(18)
George McKenna
The Triumph of Will: Rights Mania, the Culture of Death, and the Crisis of Enlightenment Liberalism	221	(24)
Kenneth L. Grasso
The False Prophets of American Conservatism	245	(20)
Harry V. Jaffa
Democracy, Ethics, Religion: An Intrinsic Connection	265	(10)
W. Norris Clarke
And Now for Something Different: A Good Word on Behalf of the Legal Positivists	275	(30)
Hadley Arkes
Judicial Activism and Regime Change	305	(16)
George W. Carey
On Merely Being Intelligent: Canavan's Views and Reviews	321	(18)
James V. Schall
Appendix A Francis Canavan Bibliography	339	(8)
Notes	347	(38)
About the Contributors	385	(4)
Index	389