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Today's world is rocked by claims and counter-claims made by the most diverse groups. The result is ideological conflict, violence, destruction and always the threat of a wider war, often based on contested land and boundaries. At bottom, all these disputes resolve themselves into conflicts about justice. But what is justice? Does it even make sense to talk about justice today, when so many use and misuse the concept for their own ends?
In this ever timely book, the Belgian philosopher, Marcel De Corte, speaks about the ancient but contemporary idea of justice and what has become of it in the 20th century. Justice is a concept philosophers have spoken about for centuries, and their debates, far from being mere scholastic controversies, carry weight and meaning for the wars and struggles that afflict our world today. De Corte brings to his in-depth discussion his background as a Thomist and his keen critique of the vagaries of modern civilization, based on distorted concepts of justice. He covers the importance of the common good, the weaknesses of contemporary democracy, the untenability of communism, and the repercussions for the Church of a misguided perception of the social order.
“One of the greatest contemporary Catholic philosophers, an intellectual concerned with politics and attentive to the unique reality of persons and things, humble before what is objective and thus opened to the truth.” —Danilo Castellano, Italian philosopher and author whose works include L'aristotelismo cristiano di Marcel de Corte
“One of the greatest twentieth-century masters of the counterrevolution.” —Juan Vallet de Goytisolo, Spanish jurist and philosopher, author, among other works, of Ideología, praxis y mito de la tecnocracia.
“For centuries, since the moral insights of Plato and Aristotle, the virtues were considered as the heart of morality. It is this which Marcel De Corte, with so many lively and interesting comments on contemporary society, brings to life in this series of books.” —Thomas Storck, author, editor and translator, most recently author of Economics: An Alternative Introduction (XIII Books)
“Marcel De Corte, of an unsurpassed intellectual mettle, professed philosophical realism which is in perfect accord with his anti-modernism.” —Miguel Ayuso, Professor of Political Science at the Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, and author of books on social and political topics, most recently, of ¿El pueblo contra el Estado?
Marcel De Corte was born in Belgium in 1905 and died in 1994. Philosopher, heir to the great Aristotelian tradition, contemporary of Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, Gabriel Marcel, and Gustave Thibon, he taught at the University of Liège until 1975. Author of more than twenty works on philosophical reflection, he is notably interested in social evolutions that stem from the French and Industrial Revolutions, principally regarding the moral and social disintegration of modern man.
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