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ethical and political implications and provocations of a christian personalism

21. Quaestiones Disputatae: Volume > 9 > Issue: 2
Brian J. Buckley

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One of the worst aspects of racism is the damage inflicted on the human person by evoking feelings of separateness and inferiority. In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King meant to capture that impact by referring to a “degenerating sense of nobodiness.” This essay invokes King’s reference to “nobodiness” and connects it explicitly with the negative effects on three particular elements of the human person. Those are having a unique and expressive voice, living a narrative life, and being a Thou. Each is part of a distinctive, unrepeatable personhood. Racism, however, with its categorizing and generalizing tendencies, denies the recognition of those attributes and thereby accords a status of “nobody” to the victim. His or her point of view, personal story, and capacity to stand with integrity as a Thou are set aside. Rendered a “nobody” by racism, his or her personhood has been denied.
22. Quaestiones Disputatae: Volume > 9 > Issue: 2
Rose Mary Hayden Lemmons

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The crisis of democracy unfolding in the United States was identified by John Paul II as due to misunderstanding the relationship of truth and freedom. This crisis has grown worse due to a libertinism that sees objective moral truths as impositions on both free choice and fulfilling relationships, that identifies self-fulfillment with a self-creation in which one creates one’s own values, that seeks to build democracies apart from moral objectivity, and that dismisses the relevance of God for living well. I argue that democracy cannot survive these libertine errors and that they cannot be successfully countered by utilitarianism, Rawls’s political liberalism, or democratic proceduralism. Survival requires adopting the Thomistic personalism formulated by Aquinas and developed by Karol Wojtyła as indispensable for understanding those lived experiences through which one encounters the ethical moment of self-determination, achieves moral objectivity, avoids loneliness by loving truly, and seeks—via collaboration with women exercising their feminine genius for discerning the welfare of others—the common good, without which democracies collapse into atheistic tyranny.

23. Quaestiones Disputatae: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Randall G. Colton

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Alice M. Ramos

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Matthew McWhorter

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Eduardo Echeverria

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Gregory R. Beabout, Daniel Carter

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Josef Seifert

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29. Quaestiones Disputatae: Volume > 8 > Issue: 2
Logan Paul Gage

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Frederick D. Aquino

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Max Baker-Hytch

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Donald J. Bungum

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Martijn Blaauw, Jeroen de Ridder

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34. Quaestiones Disputatae: Volume > 8 > Issue: 2
Logan Paul Gage

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Lydia McGrew

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Timothy McGrew

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Tyler Dalton McNabb Orcid-ID

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Calum Miller

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Joshue Orozco

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40. Quaestiones Disputatae: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Patrick Toner

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