"Catholic Social Teaching and Hayek's Critique of Social Justice" by Philip Booth and Matias Petersen

LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture

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Catholic Social Teaching and Hayek's Critique of Social Justice

Authors

Philip Booth
Matias Petersen

Publication Date

Winter 2020

Document Type

Article

DOI

10.1353/log.2020.0002

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Excerpt

Controversy surrounding the meaning of social justice has dominated many discussions of political economy, at least since F. A. Hayek published The Mirage of Social Justice as the second volume of Law, Legislation and Liberty in 1976. The subject divides political economists, philosophers, and theologians. It is also used to place a divide between Christian social thought and those Christians who might be sympathetic toward Hayekian thinking. Indeed, some argue that, since Hayek regarded social justice as a mirage (amongst many other negative descriptions), his thinking on matters of politics and economics is incompatible with a Christian view of social policy and political organization. However, there are several points of misunderstanding in these debates. For example, it is not clear whether Hayek's critique of social justice's Christian origins was well founded.

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Recommended Citation

Booth, Philip and Petersen, Matias (2020) "Catholic Social Teaching and Hayek's Critique of Social Justice," LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture: Vol. 23: No. 1, Article 4.
DOI: 10.1353/log.2020.0002
Available at: https://ir.stthomas.edu/logos/vol23/iss1/4

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