The Catholic Bishops and the Economy: A Debate (Studies in Social Philosophy and Policy) [Hardcover]

Douglas Rasmussen (Author), James Sterba (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0912051159 | ISBN-13: 978-0912051154 | Publication Date: January 1, 1987

When the Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops was first released to the public, it occasioned a storm of controversy. The Bishops were criticied for presuming to enter into the debate on public policy, as well as for the specific policy recommendations they made. Here, Sterba and Rasmussen debate the philosophical validity of the Bishops' analysis of the U.S. economy, discussing the conception of human dignity philosophically, while critiquing economic empirical evidence.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 118 pages
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers (January 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912051159
• ISBN-13: 978-0912051154
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,246,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Douglas B. Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University. He received his B.A. from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. from Marquette University. He has served on the Steering Committee of the Ayn Rand Society and the Executive Council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment to the Humanities and the Earhart Foundation and has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, on three occasions. His areas of research interest are epistemology, ontology, ethics, and political philosophy as well as the moral foundations of capitalism. He has authored numerous articles in such journals as American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, American Philosophical Quarterly, International Philosophical Quarterly, The New Scholasticism, The Personalist, Public Affairs Quarterly, Social Philosophy & Policy, The Review of Metaphysics, and The Thomist, and in many scholarly anthologies. He guest edited TELEOLOGY & THE FOUNDATION OF VALUE--the January 1992 (Volume 75, No. 1) issue of The Monist. He is coauthor (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) of Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991); Liberalism Defended: The Challenge of Post-Modernity (1997); and Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2005). Finally, he is coeditor (with Den Uyl) of The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand (1984).