Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Social Justice Reconsidered-Taparelli’s Realist Social Science
I – Taparelli and the Age of Ideology
The Religious Question from the Middle Ages to the Nineteeth Century
Traditionalists and Liberals in the Restorationist Period
Eclecticism and Taparelli’s “Conversion” to Scholastic Philosophy
The Scholastic Revival: The Appeal of Thomism
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Psychology and Anthropology
Natural Law and Politics
Reading the Saggio
Two Philosophies
Dialectic of Theory and Fact
Application
Pius IX and Civiltà Cattolica
Leo XIII from Aeterni Patris to Rerum Novarum
III – Social Justice and Subsidiarity
The Problem of Social Justice
Introduction to Subsidiarity
Genealogy of the Idea of Subsidiarity
Natural, Voluntary, and Dutiful Societies
Authority and the Common Good
Principles of Subsidiarity in Practice
A Coherent Account of Social Justice
Natural Right to Subjective Rights
Social Justice Rightly Understood
Social Justice and Subsidiarity Applied: Social Economics
Compared with Naturalistic Economic Thought
Principles and Objectives
Scope and Limits of State Intervention
Conclusion – Taparelli’s Realist Social Science
Summary of the Argument
The Development of Catholic Social Teaching
1. Self-Interest Rightly Understood: The Three Motors of Human Will/Action
2. Subsidiarity: Sociality and Hypotactical Society
3. From Natural Right to Subjective Rights to Social Justice
4. Social Justice, Subsidiarity, and Social Economy
Appendix. Luigi Taparelli, SJ, “Treatise on Subsidiarity”
Bibliography
Index