Andrew M Yuengert

Catholic Social Teaching in Practice

Exploring Practical Wisdom and the Virtues Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The virtue of practical wisdom is implicit but largely unexplored in Catholic social thought. This book investigates Catholic Social Teaching from the neo-Aristotelian perspective of practical wisdom and the virtues tradition. It brings practical wisdom into an explicit, wide-ranging conversation with Catholic teaching on society and economics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781009261470
• ISBN-10: 1009261479
• Artikelnr.: 67157560

Autorenporträt

Andrew M. Yuengert is Blanche Seaver Chair of Social Science and Professor of Economics, Social Science Division, Pepperdine University. An economist whose research crosses the boundaries between economics, moral philosophy, and Catholic theology, he is the author of The Boundaries of Technique: Ordering Positive and Normative Concerns in Economic Research (2004) and Approximating Prudence: Aristotelian Practical Wisdom and Economic Models of Choice (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Principles and practical wisdom in Catholic social teaching
2. The virtue of practical wisdom
3. Prudence in the documents of Catholic social teaching
4. Practical personalism and the laity
5. Lay formation in practical wisdom
6. Catholic social teaching and economics in practical dialogue
7. Catholic social teaching and economics: missing virtue
8. Political disagreements between bishops and laity
9. Making Catholic social teaching practical.