MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02130cam a22002294a 4500
001 2008020523
003 DLC
005 20090603082455.0
008 080506s2008 dcu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008020523
020 $a9780813215419 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBX1793$b.S325 2008
082 00 $a282$222
100 1 $aSchall, James V.
245 14 $aThe mind that is Catholic :$bphilosophical and political essays /$cJames V. Schall.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bCatholic University of America Press,$c2008.
300 $axi, 337 p.$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-332) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: A certain crime unobserved -- On Catholic thinking. The mind that is Catholic ; Infinitized by the spirit: Maritain and the intellectual vocation ; Chesterton, the real heretic: the outstanding eccentricity of the peculiar sect called Roman Catholics ; The very graciousness of being -- Reckoning with Plato. On the uniqueness of Socrates: political philosophy and the rediscovery of the human body ; On the death of Plato: some philosophical thoughts on the Thracian maidens ; What is piety? -- The abiding implications of friendship. Aristotle on friendship ; The totality of society: from justice to friendship ; The Trinity: God is not alone -- The medieval experience. The point of medieval political philosophy ; Possessed of both a reason and a revelation ; Aquinas and the defense of ordinary things: on what common men call common sense -- Implications of Catholic thought. The realism of St. Augustine's political realism: Augustine and Machiavelli ; Mystifying indeed: on being fully human ; Transcendence and political philosophy ; Mysticism, political philosophy, and play -- Things practical and impractical. Sports and philosophy ; The real alternatives to just war -- Where does it lead? On choosing not to see ; The ultimate meaning of existence ; The beginning of the real story -- Conclusion: On being allowed to read Monte Cristo.
650 0 $aChristianity and politics$xCatholic Church.
650 0 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy.