Using France as the most representative case of a Catholic context, Bélanger argues that as French society became more secularized intellectuals replaced the clergy as arbitrators of justice and enlightenment. Catholic morality was consolidated by the scholastic tradition and confirmed by the Counter-Reformation, providing the foundation that allowed the establishment of a lay elite. Bélanger describes the progressive takeover of positions of influence by the new elite in Catholic society and examines arguments used by thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century to legitimize their positions. In contrast, the Anglo-Saxon Protestant tradition, due to its emphasis on the priesthood of all believers, led to recognition of the individual's conscience as the sole judge of her or his deeds and failed to provide intellectuals with the basis for any claim to serve as moral leaders in political affairs.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 305.5/52
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- 9780773566361 0773515178
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- BJ1231
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- B46 1997eb
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- 1 electronic text (viii, 242 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Introduction 12
- PART I: OBJECTIVE JUSTICE AND ITS DEMISE 26
- 1 Catholic Ethics 28
- 2 The British Moralists: The Eclipse of Natural Law 39
- 3 The American Assessment of Natural Law 59
- 4 From the Clerisy to a Sparse Intelligentsia 68
- PART II: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE INTELLECTUAL: THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE 82
- 5 The Counter-Reformation and the Impact of Jesuit Pedagogy 84
- 6 Lay Ethics within the Bounds of the Church 94
- 7 The Philosophe: The Prefiguration of the Intellectual 106
- 8 The Revolutionary Reading of Justice 133
- 9 An Anti-Individualist Liberalism 142
- 10 Positivism: The Path Leading to the Intellectual 154
- 11 The Emergence of the Intellectual 161
- 12 The Consecration of the Intellectual 176
- Conclusion 189
- Appendix 198
- Bibliography 212
- Index 246
- A 246
- B 246
- C 246
- D 247
- E 247
- F 247
- G 247
- H 248
- I 248
- J 248
- K 249
- L 249
- M 249
- N 249
- O 249
- P 249
- Q 250
- R 250
- S 250
- T 251
- V 251
- W 251
- Z 251
