Che cos'è la giustizia sociale? Per Friedrich von Hayek era un miraggio, un cliché senza senso, ideologico, incoerente e vacuo. Credeva che il termine dovesse essere evitato, abbandonato e lasciato morire di morte naturale. Per i suoi sostenitori, giustizia sociale è un termine generico che può essere usato per giustificare qualsiasi programma governativo di stampo progressista. In questo volume Michael Novak e Paul Adams cercano di chiarire il vero significato della giustizia sociale e di salvarla dai tanti che se ne vogliono appropriare in termini ideologici. Esaminando figure che vanno da Antonio Rosmini, Abraham Lincoln e von Hayek, ai papi Leone XII, Giovanni Paolo II, Benedetto XVI e Francesco, gli autori rivelano che la giustizia sociale non è un sinonimo di 'governo progressista', come siamo soliti credere. È piuttosto una virtù radicata nell'insegnamento sociale cattolico e sviluppata come alternativa al potere incontrollato dello Stato. Quasi tutti gli operatori sociali si considerano progressisti, eppure molte delle loro 'buone pratiche' mirano a dare potere alle famiglie e alle comunità locali. Non pongono l'accento sull'individuo o sullo Stato, ma sul vasto spazio civile che li separa. In questa sorprendente riconsiderazione del suo intento originario, la giustizia sociale rappresenta una virtù immensamente potente per coltivare la responsabilità personale e costruire le comunità umane che possono contrastare la diffusa resa a uno Stato in continua crescita. Prefazione di Flavio Felice.

Bestselling author Brenda Novak unearths love in the darkest of places.

When Maximillian Wilder hides his noble identity and joins the notorious body snatchers known as the London Supply Company, the last thing on his mind is love. He’s worried about Madeline, his vanished half sister, who was last seen in the company of Jack Hurtsill, the gang’s conscienceless leader. Raiding graveyards, stealing corpses, and selling them to medical colleges as dissection material is dirty work, but Max knows he must gain Jack’s trust. He’s determined to find out what happened to Madeline—and to bring Jack to justice if she was murdered for the coin her body could earn.

Beautiful, spirited Abigail Hale, daughter of the surgeon at Aldersgate School of Medicine, detests the challenging, hard-bargaining Max almost as much as Jack. But she must procure the necessary specimens if she is to save the college and her father’s career. She believes she is going to be successful—until Jack double-crosses her. Then she’s swept into a plot of danger and intrigue, one where Max must intervene to protect her, no matter the risk to his plan…or his heart.

Bestselling author Brenda Novak unearths love in the darkest of places.

When Maximillian Wilder hides his noble identity and joins the notorious body snatchers known as the London Supply Company, the last thing on his mind is love. He’s worried about Madeline, his vanished half sister, who was last seen in the company of Jack Hurtsill, the gang’s conscienceless leader. Raiding graveyards, stealing corpses, and selling them to medical colleges as dissection material is dirty work, but Max knows he must gain Jack’s trust. He’s determined to find out what happened to Madeline—and to bring Jack to justice if she was murdered for the coin her body could earn.

Beautiful, spirited Abigail Hale, daughter of the surgeon at Aldersgate School of Medicine, detests the challenging, hard-bargaining Max almost as much as Jack. But she must procure the necessary specimens if she is to save the college and her father’s career. She believes she is going to be successful—until Jack double-crosses her. Then she’s swept into a plot of danger and intrigue, one where Max must intervene to protect her, no matter the risk to his plan…or his heart.

Over the past fifty years, increasing numbers of American Catholics have abandoned the economic positions associated with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and chosen to embrace the principles of economic freedom and limited government: ideals upheld by Ronald Reagan and the Tea Party movement but also deeply rooted in the American Founding. This shift, alongside America’s growing polarization around economic questions, has generated fierce debates among Catholic Americans in recent years. Can a believing Catholic support free markets? Does the Catholic social justice commitment translate directly into big government? Do limited government Catholic Americans have something unique to contribute to the Church’s thinking about the economic challenges confronting all Catholics around the globe?

In Tea Party Catholic, Samuel Gregg draws upon Catholic teaching, natural law theory, and the thought of the only Catholic Signer of America’s Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton—the first “Tea Party Catholic”—to develop a Catholic case for the values and institutions associated with the free economy, limited government, and America’s experiment in ordered liberty. Beginning with the nature of freedom and human flourishing, Gregg underscores the moral and economic benefits of business and markets as well as the welfare state’s problems. Gregg then addresses several related issues that divide Catholics in America. These include the demands of social justice, the role of unions, immigration, poverty, and the relationship between secularism and big government.

Above all, Gregg underlines how economic freedom’s corrosion in America is undermining the United States’ robust commitment to religious liberty—a principle integral not only to the American Founding and the life of Charles Carroll but also the teaching of the Second Vatican Council. As a creative minority, Gregg argues, limited government Catholics can help transform the wider movement to reground the United States upon the best insights of the American Experiment—and thereby save that Experiment itself.

Why do we work so hard at our jobs, day after day? Why is a job well done important to us? We know there is more to a career than money and prestige, but what exactly do we mean by 'fulfillment'? These are old but important questions. They belong with some newly discovered ones: Why are people in business more religious than the population as a whole? What do people of business know, and what do they do, that anchors their faith? In this ground-breaking and inspiring book, Michael Novak ties together these crucial questions by explaining the meaning of work as a vocation. Work should be more than just a job -- it should be a calling.
This book explains an important part of our lives in a new way, and readers will instantly recognize themselves in its pages. A larger proportion than ever before of the world's Christians, Jews, and other peoples of faith are spending their working lives in business. Business is a profession worthy of a person's highest ideals and aspirations, fraught with moral possibilities both of great good and of great evil. Novak takes on agonizing problems, such as downsizing, the tradeoffs that must sometimes be faced between profits and human rights, and the pitfalls of philanthropy. He also examines the daily questions of how an honest day's work contributes to the good of many people, both close at hand and far away. Our work connects us with one another. It also makes possible the universal advance out of poverty, and it is an essential prerequisite of democracy and the institutions of civil society.
This book is a spiritual feast, for everyone who wants to examine how to make a life through making a living.

This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a 'systematic review of literature,' field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of topics from the sporting world, including biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility and pride, genetic enhancement technologies, stereotypes, sport as art and British and American historical analyses of sport and Christianity. Insightful chapters from Scott Kretchmar, one of the world’s leading philosophers of sport, and Father Kevin Lixey, the head of the Vatican’s ‘Church and Sport’ office (2004-), add further depth and breadth to this book, making it accessible and interesting to academic and practitioner audiences alike. Within the context of this relatively new and rapidly expanding area of inquiry, this collection provides a unique and important addition to the current literature for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and serves as a point of reference for scholars of theology and religious studies, psychology, health studies, ethics and sports studies. The book may also be of interest to physical educators and sports coaches who wish to adopt a more 'holistic' and ethical approach to their work. As modern sport is often intertwined with commercial and political agendas, this book offers an important corrective to the 'win-at-all-costs' culture of modern sport, which cannot be fully understood through secular ethical inquiry.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic for Multi-Agent Systems, CLIMA X, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2009 - co-located with MATES 2009, the 7th German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies. The 9 full papers, presented together with one invited paper, were carefully selected and reviewed from 18 submissions. The topics covered are formal approaches and model checking, belief-desire-intention, answer set programming and (multi-)agent systems, and coordination and deliberation.

The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Doveremains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustainedrefl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are.The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, cansacralize or secularize our lives and our world by the wayin which we choose to relate to it. With this awareness ofthe story dimension of life, Ascent of the Mountain, Flightof the Dove opens us to awe, reverence, and wonder at therisks and possibilities of human freedom.

This book is even more important than it was thirtyyears ago. We need religion to strike deeply into the self,away from public glare. Unless Americans become moresophisticated about the language of the self, inner life willshrivel. In addition, our people will continue to be vulnerableto fundamentalist movements. Such movements takeover too many innocents. Th ey promise, and sometimesdeliver, a touching happiness. But they do so by closingthe spirit in a powerful and dangerous way.

Families and schools do not provide a large and criticalvocabulary by which to express the inner longings ofthe spirit. The souls of many are parched and they gladlyaccept water, any water, from those who off er it. Th eliberation of the religious spirit from trivial, closed,and simplistic systems of thought can only be achievedthrough the development of a critical language, exercises,and disciplines that open rather than close the mind, thatlead to higher viewpoints, breakthroughs, and new syntheses,in a constant enlargement of spirit. Novak's bookleads us to that place.

Michael Novak is George FrederickJewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy,and Public Policy at American EnterpriseInstitute for Public Policy Research. Hehas twice been the UN Ambassador to theUN Human Rights Commission and is thedirector of AEI's social and political studies.He is the author of twenty-fi ve booksand numerous scholarly articles.

Actor, Poet and Photographer Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill Vol I and II, ESPN's Tilt) releases the only authorized, 10 year Anniversary Edition of his poetry. Six-books-in-one that celebrate a decade of Madsen's poetic sketches. This is the only authorized, comprehensive compilation of Michael Madsen's poetry available anywhere. A 'must have' for any Madsen fan! He's a throw-back to the true spirit of the Beats...An Anachronistic Beat. Madsen is a grand storyteller as you follow him through his wild times at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood to the rain-soaked streets of Luxembourg to the historic western film locations in Durango, Mexico where John Wayne's ranch used to be, to a near-death experience in Bucharest. However, this book is not all about the 'road to excess.' His family, his friends, his pets, and those personal, evanescent moments as he has observed and recorded them, are all captured in this 10 Year Anniversary Edition. He also possesses a shrewd sense of humor. A veritable feast for the eyes, 'The Complete Poetic Works of Michael Madsen,' offers many rare photographs-- there is the original flyer from the Steppenwolf Theatre where Madsen began his acting career included in this book, along with over 50 other personal photos on and off the set.

Questo volume riunisce diversi saggi di Novak sulla 'ecologia morale': l'etica che deve essere coltivata e preservata, se le società liberali e democratiche vogliono sopravvivere. Novak argomenta in difesa di una società libera e virtuosa, esaminando la famiglia, la riforma del welfare, il libero mercato, l'autogoverno, e sulla tradizione fondativa degli Stati Uniti d'America. Una serie di studi su figure come Jacques Maritain, san Tommaso d'Aquino e John Courtney Murray, insieme ad uno scritto autobiografico dello stesso Novak e ad una introduzione di Brian C. Anderson, completano il volume.

Gli autori realizzano un'analisi approfondita dei nessi esistenti tra discipline come l'etica, l'economia e la politica, che sembrano costituire il percorso più originale per la comprensione, la critica e la proposizione di modelli politici, economici e culturali in grado di rappresentare la complessità e il pluralismo dell'agire umano.