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We are pleased to announce our inaugural issue, dedicated to the timeless question posed by John Rawls in Political Liberalism:

 

How is it possible for there to exist over time a stable and just society of free and equal citizens, who remain profoundly divided by reasonable though incompatible religious, philosophical and moral doctrines?  

 

 

Volume 1                    Spring 2007

 

 

CONTENTS

  

ARTICLES

The Evangelization of Culture and the Catholic University

      AVERY CARDINAL DULLES, S.J.

 

SYMPOSIUM – IDEA OF PUBLIC REASON: ACHIEVEMENT OR FAILURE?

Introduction to Symposium Series

      WILLIAM J. WAGNER  

 

John Rawls’s Idea of Public Reason: Achievement or Failure

      PAUL WEITHMAN

 

Public Reason and Contemporary Politics: A Contradiction in Terms?

      E.J. DIONNE, JR.

 

What Are Public Reasons?

      KENT GREENAWALT

 

Public Reason and “Justification” in the Courtroom

      JEREMY J. WALDRON

 

Religious Reasons, Liberal Theory, and Coercion

      NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF

 

Secular Reason and the Misguided Attempt to Exclude Religious Argument from Democratic Deliberation

      MICHAEL W. McCONNELL

 

Public Reason, Truth, and Human Fellowship: Going Beyond Rawls

      JOHN HALDANE

 

Symposium Response

      WILLIAM A. GALSTON

 


COMMENTS

Venture (Social) Capitalists: Reinvigorating Common-Interest Communities Through an Infusion of Philosophy

      JEREMY R. MOSS

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Giovanni Minnucci’s Alberico Gentili tra mos italicus e mos gallicus: L'inedito Commentario Ad legem Juliam de adulteriis

      R.H. HELMHOLZ

 

Review of Anthony Kenny and Charles Kenny’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Utility: Happiness in Philosophical and Economic Thought

JASON KAWALL

 

Review of Tracey Rowland’s Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II

      WILLIAM L. SAUNDERS, JR.



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