Reassessing the Liberal State:
Reading Maritain's Man and the State

Edited by Timothy Fuller and John P. Hittinger, 2001

Contents

I. Politics and Community in the Modern World

• 1. Russell Hittinger - Reasons for a Civil Society
• 2. Timothy Fuller - Jacques Maritain and Michael Oakeshott on the Modern State
• 3. William Haggerty - The Question of Modernity in the Political Thought of Heinrich Rommen
• 4. Catherine Green - Work, Rest, and Generosity
• 5. Desmond FitzGerald - Maritain and Gilson on the Challenge of Political Democracy

II. Liberalism Reconsidered

• 6. Henk E.S. Woldring - Constitutional Democracy in Search of Justification
• 7. Jeanne M. Heffernan - Acknowledging Ambiguity and Difference in Politics: A Christian Realist Challenge to Thomists
• 8. John R. Goodreau - Kant's Contribution to the Idea of Democratic Pluralism
• 9. James Hanink - Liberalism and Legitimacy: An Indictment

III. Natural Law Foundations for Liberalism

• 10. Gregory Doolan - Maritain, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the First Principles of Natural Law
• 11. V. Bradley Lewis - Liberal Democracy, Natural Law and Jurisprudence: Thomistic Notes on an Irish Debate
• 12. J. Budziszewski - Denying What We Can't Not know
• 13. John Trapani, Jr. - Different Music-The Same Keyboard: Obscene Art/Pornography and the First Amendment Debate

IV. The Church in the Modern World

• 14. John Hittinger - The Cooperation of Church and State: Maritain's Argument from the Unity of the Person
• 15. Joseph M. de Torre - Maritain's "Integral Humanism" and Catholic Social Teaching
• 16. Deborah Wallace Ruddy - Christian Humility and Democratic Citizenry: St. Augustine and Jacques Maritain
• 17. Nicholas C. Lund-Molfese - Maritain's Contribution to the Development of the Magisterium on Means
• 18. Pope Paul VI - Message to Men of Thought and Science - Message to Heads of State - Discourse at the Last General Session of Vatican II