Newman Nights: The common good and the challenge of pluralism

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April 16, 2013

If we assume a fundamental pluralism, can we speak of a "common good"? If not then according to Catholic social teaching, there is nothing to legitimize the authority of government.  Fr. Sweeney proposes that subsidiarity may offer a proper way out of of this conundrum.

Speaker:  Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP, President of Dominican School of Philosophy abd Theology, Berkeley.

 

 

Date: 
04/16/2013
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041613.mp323.6 MB
Keywords: 
common good, pluralism, subsidiarity
Author: 
Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP, President of Dominican School of Philosophy abd Theology, Berkeley.