The ethics of Catholicism and the consecration of the intellectual /
Using France as the most representative case of a Catholic context, Andre J. Belanger argues that as French society became more secularized intellectuals replaced the clergy as arbitrators of justice and enlightenment. Catholic morality was consolidated by the scholastic tradition and confirmed by t...
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1997.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Objective Justice and Its Demise. 1. Catholic Ethics. 2. The British Moralists: The Eclipse of Natural Law. 3. The American Assessment of Natural Law. 4. From the Clerisy to a Sparse Intelligentsia
- pt. II. The Rise and Fall of the Intellectual: The French Experience. 5. The Counter-Reformation and the Impact of Jesuit Pedagogy. 6. Lay Ethics within the Bounds of the Church. 7. The Philosophe: The Prefiguration of the Intellectual. 8. The Revolutionary Reading of Justice. 9. An Anti-Individualist Liberalism. 10. Positivism: The Path Leading to the Intellectual. 11. The Emergence of the Intellectual. 12. The Consecration of the Intellectual.