Acton Research
List of Readings
- Chisholm, Roderick M.
- Chisholm, Roderick M. Realism and the Background of Phenomenology. Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1960.
- Devitt, M.
- Devitt, M. Realism and Truth. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
- Heil, John
- Heil, John (ed.). Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993.
- Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey
- Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey (eds.). Essays on Moral Realism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Moral Realism
List of Readings
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT
After 1991: Capitalism and Ethics. A Colloquium in the Vatican.
Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana,
1992.
Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1997.
The Church and Social Justice: The Social Teachings of the Popes from Leo XIII to Pius XII 1878-1958.
London: Burns and Oates,
1961.
The Church and Social Justice: The Social Teachings of the Popes from Leo XIII to Pius XII 1878-1958.
London: Burns and Oates,
1961.
Christian Social Witness and Teaching: The Catholic Tradition -- From Genesis to Centesimus Annus, 2 vols..
Leominster: Gracewing,
1998.
Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation Libertatis Nuntius.
London: Catholic Truth Society,
1984.
Instruction on Christian Liberation and Freedom Libertatis Conscientia.
London: Catholic Truth Society,
1986.
"Calvin's Relation to Social and Economic Change" in Calvin's Thought on Economic and Social Issues and the Relationship of Church and State. Vol. 11, Ed. Richard C. Gamble.
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.,
1992.
Economics as if God Mattered: A Century of Papers on the Central Problem in Moral Philosophy.
London: MacMillan Press, Ltd.,
1972.
With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1991.
Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Traditions and the Moral Foundations of Democracy.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,
1995.
Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Traditions and the Moral Foundations of Democracy.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,
1995.
Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Traditions and the Moral Foundations of Democracy.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,
1995.
Challenging the Modern World: Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and the Development of Catholic Social Teaching.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,
1999.
Economic Systems and Economic Ethics: Guidelines in Catholic Social Teaching.
Kolin: Vereinigung zur Forderung der Christlichen Sozialwissenschaften,
1988.
Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra ("Christianity and Social Progress").
Boston: Daughters of St. Paul,
1961.
Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern).
Boston: Daughters of St. Paul,
1987.
Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum (On the condition of the Working Classes).
Boston: Daughters of St. Paul,
1891.
"Trade and Usury" In On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life. Ed. Max Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Shirley J. Roels and Preston N. Williams.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1995.
Thine is the Kingdom: A Biblical Perspective on the Nature of Government and Politics Today.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1984.
We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition.
New York: Sheed and Ward,
1960.
Freedom with Justice: Catholic Social thought and Liberal Institutions, 2nd ed..
New Brunswick: Transaction,
1989.
Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples).
Boston: Daughters of St. Paul,
1967.
Encyclical Letter Quadragesimo Anno (On Social Reconstruction).
Boston: Daughters of St. Paul,
1931.
Message of the Fathers of the Church, Social Thought, Vol. 20.
Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier,
1984.
"The Dignity of the Human Person" In Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, vol. 5, H. Vorgrimler, ed..
New York: Herder and Herder,
1969.
That They May Be One: The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals, 1740-1989.
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press,
1991.
A Century of Catholic Social Thought: Essays on Rerum Novarum and Nine Other Key Documents.
Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center,
1991.
A New Worldly Order: John Paul II and Human Freedom.
Lanham, MD: Ethics and Public Policy Center,
1992.
FREE MARKET ECONOMICS
"What is Seen and What is Not Seen" in Selected Essays on Political Economy.
Toronto: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.,
1964.
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, 2nd ed..
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1983.
The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about Prosperity, Equality, & Liberty.
New York: Basic Books, Inc.,
1986.
Great Economists Since Keynes: An Introduction to the Lives & Works of One Hundred Modern Economists.
Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble,
1985.
"The Domain of Subjective Economics: Between Predictive Science and Moral Philisophy" In Method, Process, and Austrian Economics. Ed. Israel M. Kirzner.
Lexington, MA: Heath Publishers,
1982.
The Hayek-Keynes Debate -- Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research.
Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press,
1999.
The Hayek-Keynes Debate -- Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research.
Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press,
1999.
La Economía como Ciencia Moral: Nuevas Perspectivas de la Teoría Economica.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Universidad Católica Argentina,
1997.
"The Concept of the Just Price: Theory and Economic Policy" In the Journal of Economic History 18\.
,
Dec-58.
With Liberty and Justice for Whom?: The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1991.
The Creation of Wealth: A Christian's Case for Capitalism.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,
1984.
What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity.
Tallahassee, FL: The James Madison Institute,
1993.
What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity.
Tallahassee, FL: The James Madison Institute,
1993.
"Economics and Knowledge" In Individualism and Economic Order.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1949.
"The Use of Knowledge in Society" In Individualism and Economic Order.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1949.
The Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought, Ed. Lawrence S. Moss.
Kansas City: Sheed and Ward,
1976.
"The Subjectivism of Austrian Economics" In New Perspectives on Austrian Economics, Ed. Gerrit Meijer.
London: Routledge,
1995.
"The Interpretative Turn" In The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Ed. Peter Boettke.
Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.,
1994.
"Trade and Usury" In On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life. Ed. Max Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Shirley J. Roels, and Preston N. Williams.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1995.
Principles of Economics, 9th ed., vol. 1. Ed. C.W. Guillebaud.
New York: The Macmillan Company,
1961 (1890).
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution.
New Haven: Yale University Press,
1957.
"Toward an Interpretative Economics: some Hermeneutical Issues" In Methodus 2 (December 1990).
,
1990.
"On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" In The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Ed. Piero Sraffa.
Cambridge: University Press for the Royal Economic Society,
1953.
"Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: On the Nature of the Welfare State" In Against the Tide.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company,
1969.
Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 1.
Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar Publishing Company,
1995.
Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles.
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Insitute,
1993.
"New Light on the Prehistory of Austrian Economics" In The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics. Ed. E.G. Dolan.
Mission, KS: Sheed and Ward,
1976.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.,
1938 (1776).
Elements of Pure Economics or The Theory of Social Wealth.
Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, Inc.,
1954 (1926).
"The Use of Money" In On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life. Ed. Max Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Shirley J. Roels, and Preston N. Williams.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1995.
"The Imperialism of Economics over Ethics" In Journal of Markets & Morality 2, 2 (October 1999).
Grand Rapids, MI: Center for Economic Personalism,
1999.
HUMAN DIGNITY
"Reply to Marc Guerra's 'The Affirmation of Genuine Human Dignity'" In Journal of Markets & Morality.
Grand Rapids, MI: Center for Economic Personalism,
2001.
"The Affirmation of Genuine Human Dignity" In Journal of Markets & Morality.
Grand Rapids, MI: Center for Economic Personalism,
2001.
Ethics, Value and Reality: Selected Papers on Aurel Kolnoi.
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company,
1978.
NATURAL LAW
Commentarium super epistolam ad Romanos, c.14, lect.2 (ad v.5), in S. Thomae Aquinatus Super Epistolas S. Pauli Lectura, R. Cai, O.P. (ed.).
Turin: Marietti,
.
In Duo Praecepta Caritatis et in Decem Legis Praecepta. Prologus: Opuscula Theologica, II, No.1129, Ed. Taurinen.
Paris,
1954.
A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, "Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full" (1686), edited, with an Introduction by John Kilcullen and Chandran Kukathas.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2005.
Christian Moral Realism: Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue and the Gospel.
New York: Oxford University Press,
2000.
"Is the New Natural Law Theory Christian?" In The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School, 148-63. Edited by Nigel Biggar and Rufus Black.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2000.
"Is the New Natural Law Theory Christian?" In The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School, 148-63. Edited by Nigel Biggar and Rufus Black.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2000.
The New Natural Law Theory In The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School, 1-28. Edited by Nigel Biggar and Rufus Black.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2000.
"The New Natural Law Theory" In The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School, 1-28. Edited by Nigel Biggar and Rufus Black.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2000.
"Karl Barth and Germain Grisez on the Human Good: An Ecumenical Rapprochement." In The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School, 164-83. Edited by Nigel Biggar and Rufus Black.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2000.
Karl Barth and Germain Grisez on the Human Good: An Ecumenical Rapprochement. In The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School, 164-83. Edited by Nigel Biggar and Rufus Black.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2000.
Revelation and Reason: The Christian Doctrine of Faith and Knowledge.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press,
1946.
Natural Theology ("Nature and Grace" by Brunner and the Reply "No!" by Barth).
London: Geoffrey Bles,
1946.
Natural Theology ("Nature and Grace" by Brunner and the Reply "No!" by Barth).
London: Geoffrey Bles,
1946.
Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment: The Writings of Gershom Carmichael (1724), ed. James Moore and Michael Silverthorne.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2002.
An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature (1652), ed. Robert A. Greene and Hugh MacCallum.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2001.
The Elements of Moral Philosophy, in Three Books with a Brief Account of the Nature, Progress and Origin of Philosophy (1754), ed. Thomas Kennedy.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2003.
"Natural Law and Positive Law" in The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism.
Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1996.
"Natural Law and International Order" in The Constitution of International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, Terry Nardin et al. (eds.).
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1998.
Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
2005.
"Practical Principles, Moral Truth, and Ultimate Ends", American Journal of Jurisprudence 32.
,
1987.
The Free Sea with William Welwod's Critique and Grotius's Reply (1609), ed. David Armitage.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2004.
Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics: Prospects for Rapprochement.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1978.
God's Call: Moral Realism, God's Commands, and Human Autonomy.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
2001.
"Types of Protestant Theology and the Natural Law Tradition." Ph.D. dissertation.
Duke University,
1970.
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion, Corrected and Improved, in a Third Edition. Several Essays Added Concerning the Proof of a Deity (1779).
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2005.
An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (1742).
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2002.
An Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises (1726).
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2004.
Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind (1730).
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2006.
Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution (1791).
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
2006.
