Towards a Critical Political Ethics: Catholic Ethic and Social Challenges
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Description
In her book Hille Haker pleads for a radical course correction of Catholic social ethics by focusing on three foundational concepts of social ethics: human rights, human dignity and moral responsibility based on the interplay of compassion, solidarity and justice. The author argues for a historically and politically mediated ethics that replaces the natural law ethics. The theoretical reflections of the book are carried out by the practical social-ethical studies: The politicization of individual human rights is examined in the contexts of migration, religious freedom, and criminal justice. Human dignity is spelled out as "vulnerable agency" allowing for a sharp criticism of Catholic sexual morality and neglect of women’s human rights.The book ends with a discussion of the relationship of political theology and political ethics and its social-ethical implications for the further development of a Critical Political Ethics.
ISBN
978-3-7965-4147-6
Publication Date
5-11-2020
Publisher
Schwabe Verlag
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Recommended Citation
Haker, Hille, "Towards a Critical Political Ethics: Catholic Ethic and Social Challenges" (2020). Faculty Books. 174.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/174
