Carson Holloway 
The Way of Life [PDF ebook] 
John Paul II and the Challenge of Liberal Modernity

Support

The passing of John Paul II provoked questions about the Pope, particularly in his relation to modernity. Was he opposed to the tenets of modernity, as some critics claimed? Or did he accommodate modernity in a way no Pope ever had, as his champions asserted? In The Way of Life, Carson Holloway examines the fundamental philosophers of modernity-from Hobbes to Toqueville-to suggest that John Paul II’s critique of modernity is intended not to reject, but to improve. Thus, claims Holloway, it is appropriate for liberal modernity to attend to the Pope’s thought, receiving it not as the attack of an enemy but as the criticism of a candid friend.

€35.99
payment methods

Table of Content

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Gospel of Life and the Culture of Death

3. Hobbes and the Origins of Liberal Modernity

4. Locke’s Theistic Liberalism

5. Hume and the Morality of Sympathy

6. The Ambiguity of the American Founding

7. Tocqueville and the Moral Trajectory of Modern Democracy

8. Conclusion

Bibliography

About the author

Carson Holloway (Ph.D. Northern Illinois University) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a former William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is the author of Magnanimity and Statesmanship (2008), The Right Darwin: Evolution, Religion, and the Future of Democracy (2006), and All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (2000).

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 204 ● ISBN 9781602582224 ● File size 3.6 MB ● Publisher Baylor University Press ● City Waco ● Country US ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7483699 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

138,329 Ebooks in this category