The Catholic ethic and the spirit of capitalism /

The Catholic ethic and the spirit of capitalism /

"Any vision of capitalism's future prospects must take into account the powerful cultural influence Catholicism has exercised throughout the world. The Church had for generations been reluctant to come to terms with capitalism, but, as Michael Novak argues in this important book, a hundred...

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Main Author: Novak, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Toronto : New York : Free Press ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1993
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Doctrines
Christian sociology > Catholic Church
Capitalism > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Social justice
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: more than the Protestant ethic. Max Weber's limits
  • The human spirit
  • Toward a Catholic ethic
  • A preview
  • Part 1. Which system? Leo XIII to Pius XI (1891-1931). Catholics against Capitalism: Fanfani's Italy
  • Mean, petty, selfish, and materialistic
  • Wealth is a means, not an end
  • The Catholic spirit slowly awakens
  • Socialism, no! Capitalism? Maybe: Leo XIII: Why did Socialism fail?
  • Workers, yes! Capitalism? Maybe
  • Toward the future
  • Social justice redefined: Pius XI: Rescuing a virtue
  • Conceptual fog
  • A brief historical overview
  • A way out
  • The civil society: five further steps
  • From 1931-1991
  • Part 2. A new birth of freedom: John Paul II (1978- ). The second liberty: Two concepts of liberty
  • Order in the Ancien Régime
  • A great year, 1989
  • The anticapitalist bias of intellectuals
  • Reconciling economics and religion
  • Convergence on choice
  • Dynamic order
  • In the direction of mind
  • The three spheres of liberty
  • One root, two liberties
  • Capitalism rightly understood: Background reflections
  • Outline of Centesimus Annus
  • A Christian social anthropology
  • Capitalism, yes
  • The limits of Capitalism
  • Toward a more civil debate
  • Part 3. Next? Poverty, race, ethnicity, and other perplexities of the 21st century. War on poverty: "Created goods should abound": The universal destination and the way
  • Reconstructing the world order
  • International poverty
  • Domestic poverty
  • Social invention
  • Ethnicity, race, and social justice: International perspectives
  • The "Civil society" project
  • Against the adversary culture: Against Nihilism
  • Culture and character
  • American founding principles, current practice
  • The Pope's challenge to the U.S.
  • Protecting the moral ecology
  • The institutional task
  • Epilogue: The creative person. Seven moral themes
  • The right stuff
  • Latin America
  • The new virtues required
  • The heart of the matter: creativity

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