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A primer for love: Personalist ethics
Charity, by embracing all the virtues, is the way to happiness.Latin America imprisoned in liberation theology
Unlike its first ascendancy in the 1980s, this time redistribution, not revolution, is the watchword.Categorical imperatives impair Christianity in culture
Christian thinkers no longer speak about culture and politics in terms of the more enduring principles of moral virtue, law, and the common good but now focus on social justice, understood as solely the immediate, material rights and dignity of the human person.Liberty legitimately constrained
We devote Religion & Liberty to recognizing and discussing the delta that forms when faith, religion, liberty, economics, and culture come together.The possibility of economic and religious liberties in postwar Iraq
The system of democratic capitalism, not socialism, responds to the natural human aspiration to exercise freedom.The true goal for the free market
All members of the human community must be brought as fully as possible into the circle of productive and creative relationships.The market economy and profit are not the problem
Market economies are not driven by greed, avarice, or covetousness. The driving force of the market economy is the consumer, you and me.Protecting the human environment: Alienation as social critique
A society then must offer a person sufficient liberty to be able to freely choose to act for the good of others.Moral inferiority of the welfare state
Whatever noble end one may hope to achieve with the forced sharing of wealth, morality cannot be one of them.Intangible assets and the Catholic framework for economic life
Employees can always decide whether or not to give you their "hearts and minds." The secret is to find out how to appeal to the "what’s in it for me."The political ideology of unprogrammed Quakers
The shift away from Quakerism’s roots in classic liberalism concerns me greatly.
Ethical Reasoning in Business
On September 30, 1982, three people in the Chicago area died from cyanide introduced into Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. The link between the deaths and the tainted capsules was made with remarkable speed, and authorities notified Johnson and Johnson. As the number of deaths grew—the final total was seven—the firm faced a crisis and, indeed, potential disaster. Tylenol, a leading pain-reliever, was Johnson and Johnson's single largest brand, accounting for almost 18 percent of the corporation's income.