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Justice & Charity: A Review
Books, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 1/19/18 Books, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 1/19/18

Justice & Charity: A Review

Justice & Charity could serve as a very helpful introduction for contemporary Catholics utterly unaware of the Church’s rich social doctrine.

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Politics and Mysticism, and Mysticism Is Better
Catholic Social Teaching, Mark and Louise Zwick Mark and Louise Zwick 7/27/16 Catholic Social Teaching, Mark and Louise Zwick Mark and Louise Zwick 7/27/16

Politics and Mysticism, and Mysticism Is Better

Dorothy and Peter did not put their best hopes in partisan politics. Peter Maurin quoted Péguy: “There is politics and mysticism, and mysticism is better.”

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Government: Good or Bad? Big or Little?
Politics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 6/20/16 Politics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 6/20/16

Government: Good or Bad? Big or Little?

Is government a necessary evil? A necessary good? Is that government best which governs least?

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Alternatives to the Jungle
Angus Sibley, Economics Angus Sibley 5/23/16 Angus Sibley, Economics Angus Sibley 5/23/16

Alternatives to the Jungle

We have gone a fair way backwards since the last century, when governments pursued strategies that owed much to Catholic economic teachings.

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Common Good, Private Good, and Personal Dignity
Daniel Schwindt, Philosophy Daniel Schwindt 1/19/16 Daniel Schwindt, Philosophy Daniel Schwindt 1/19/16

Common Good, Private Good, and Personal Dignity

Man possesses dignity because he participates in a good that is clearly higher than himself.

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Scaling Business
Economics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 1/4/16 Economics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 1/4/16

Scaling Business

The pervasive fear of any state influence on the size of a business is based on the philosophical error that man's natural state is apolitical and asocial.

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Economic Participation
Catholic Social Teaching, Economics, Richard Aleman Richard Aleman 12/9/15 Catholic Social Teaching, Economics, Richard Aleman Richard Aleman 12/9/15

Economic Participation

More ownership is rarely explored today because we have accepted the separation of ownership and work as the gold standard of economic progress.

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Utopia
Philosophy, David W. Cooney David W. Cooney 10/8/12 Philosophy, David W. Cooney David W. Cooney 10/8/12

Utopia

Distributists don't believe in utopia, rather in a society where the impact of corruption is mitigated, and therefore more easily corrected.

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The Common Good
Catholic Social Teaching, Politics, David W. Cooney David W. Cooney 8/1/12 Catholic Social Teaching, Politics, David W. Cooney David W. Cooney 8/1/12

The Common Good

When a community of a higher order acts, it is always to do so with a view of the common good, but what exactly is the common good?

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Heinrich Pesch on Solidarist Economics
Books Jared Q. Tomanek 1/18/12 Books Jared Q. Tomanek 1/18/12

Heinrich Pesch on Solidarist Economics

Solidarism, as Pesch intends, is the understanding that man is an individual person and a member of the community.

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The Vocational Group
Guilds, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 6/19/11 Guilds, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 6/19/11

The Vocational Group

The concept and the reality of vocational groups are at the heart of the traditional Catholic approach to solving socio-economic problems.

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The Market and the Moral Man
Economics, Ryan Grant Ryan Grant 4/24/10 Economics, Ryan Grant Ryan Grant 4/24/10

The Market and the Moral Man

The "market" is a-moral, it is not moral in itself or immoral. It is a tool, and it must be controlled by a user as all tools.

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