Justice, Dynamism, and Social Order: Of Wars and Markets | Prof. Catherine Pakaluk

The Thomistic Institute

Christianity, Society & Culture, Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Catholic, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Thomism, Catholicism

4.8 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on September 29, 2022. For more information on upcoming events, visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought and the head of the Social Research academic area at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. She is the author of several influential articles and was the 2015 recipient of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award, a prize given for “significant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.” Dr. Pakaluk is the Founder and Director of the new American Fertility Project based at Catholic University, and is the author of a forthcoming book on liberty and Catholic social thought. Pakaluk earned her doctorate in economics in 2010 at Harvard University under the 2016 Nobel-laureate Oliver Hart, and is a widely-admired writer and sought-after speaker on matters of culture, gender, social science, the vocation of women, and the work of Edith Stein. She lives in Maryland with her husband Michael and eight children.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
0:04.1	For more talks like this, visit us at tamistic institute.org.
0:12.0	I've been thinking for a long time about the problem of how to think about economic justice in light of the fact that, in light of the fact that things in economic life move constantly.
0:25.0	So things are not static.
0:26.3	And so sort of the standard distributional way of thinking about justice in the tradition is, is problematic because of the element of time.
0:36.6	So that's where these remarks came from.
0:41.3	So I'm going to, a couple of preamble remarks.
0:47.3	I'm going to focus on, in particular on economic justice,
0:52.3	as people think about economic justice, and sort of not on, you know, justice in general, which is a very big topic.
0:58.3	I also want to say that, you know, sort of treatises on justice are not in short supply,
1:02.9	and most of them are not short.
1:06.5	So it seems almost foolish to sort of wade into these topics.
1:13.1	I want to say in advance that I'm also interested in thinking about conditions of justice in
1:19.3	sort of the social order or the economic order.
1:24.3	It is certainly a task of the just man to will the just society.
1:29.8	But I want to say as well that there are going to be larger norms that we have to think about in terms of justice.
1:38.3	I don't think that's really a difficult thing to accomplish.
1:43.2	But I'll say, for instance, I take it for granted that an ardent,
1:46.8	an ardent committed socialist, a man who earnestly wills that private property would be abolished,
1:53.0	would fall short of excellence and justice, whatever the quality of his personal dealings with
1:59.0	others.
2:06.9	The notion of economic justice frustrates on all sides.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Thomistic Institute, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Thomistic Institute and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.