and i think of all those mediating institutions. that's what our educational institutions have to do. both of those represented me a breakthrough something new a novum you know in my consciousness that lifted me up out of the little world that i was in.

i think a great teacher is someone that, again, breaks into your subjectivity and rearranges it and offers you something in the introduction you you made reference to to to thomas is a very important to me as a young thomas merton seven storey mountain and thomas aquinas. or if they just accept view that, you know, we we create value. Institutional to cultivate what is objectively valuable? well i worry about, especially with the educational institutions, because if if they're predicated this sort of dominant subject of as of our culture, they're not going to draw people into that world. this amounted to a setting aside of causality and questions of moral aims in an embrace of efficient causality alone in the political order. hobbes endeavor to articulate a science of politics like inform and purpose to the physical sciences that were beginning to emerge in his time. in this regard, of course, hobbes particularly instructive, consciously breaking with the long tradition of political philosophy that preceded him. anti-liberal catholic theorist would have drawn attention to the roots of liberalism in thought of thomas hobbes and john locke, and would have remarked how those thinkers represented a radical rupture from the classically catholic understand ing of both the political and moral orders. but permit me to explore just a few angles. well, to provide a fully adequate response to that question would take me far beyond the confines of this paper. but there are also a lot of reflective people who felt that the two systems, the catholic and americans, were incompatible. now if we look more deeply into the arguments presented by this school of thought, refer today's fusion ist since it appreciatesīigots, both sides of the divide. in the course that letter, john paul enthusiastically endorsed the market economy and form of liberal democracy that obtained generally in the west. moss, which was simultaneously celebration of leo the 13th groundbreaking rare novarum and a thoughtful consideration of the of 1989.

the second became unmistakably in the great pope's 1991 encyclical letters a.z. one thinks of george weigel, michael novak, george robert sirico, and perhaps especially of richard john neuhaus. then, in the years following vatican two, a plethora intellectual players within the catholic academy in the united states emerged to continue and deepen this line of thought. This humanae largely penned by cortney murray, made the american to the rapport between objective religious truth and freedom of conscience, part of the official teaching of the catholic.

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