Prepolitical moral foundations of a free republic

Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 261-268

  Benedict, Pope ^a  

^a Various German Universities   (Germany)

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1. R. Spaemann, "Weltethos als 'Projekt,"' Merkur 50 (1996): 893-904.
2. Despite some minor corrections, this still-dominant philosophy of evolution is impressively carried out in J. Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, trans. Austryn Wainhouse (New York: Knopf, 1971).
3. For the distinction between the actual scientific results and the philosophy that accompanies it, Evolution: Ein kritisches Lehrbuch, ed. R. Junker and S. Scherer (Gießen: Weyel, 1998), is useful.
4. For a discussion of how the philosophy that accompanies the theory of evolution is critically questioned, see J. Ratzinger, Glaube-Wahrheit-Toleranz (Freiburg: Herder, 2003), 131-47.
5. For the three dimensions of medieval natural law (dynamics of being in general, directionality of the shared nature of man and animal [Ulpian], and specific directionality of the reasonable nature of man) see P. Delhaye, "Naturrecht," Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (Freiburg: Herder, 1998), 7:821-25.
6. I have attempted to give a more detailed account of this in my book Glaube-Wahrheit-Toleranz. See also M. Fiedrowicz, Apologie im frühen Christentum (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2001).
7. K. Hübner, Das Christentum im Wettstreit der Religionen (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), 148.