Catholic Social Thought, Markets, and Charity Spring 2018
Instructors:
Gregory Beabout, Professor of Philosophy;
Office: Adorjan 201 | gregory.beabout@slu.edu
Bonnie Wilson, Associate Professor of Economics
Office: DS 369B | bonnie.wilson@slu.edu
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:00 - 2:00; by appointment; whenever the door is open...
ECON 4980 Syllabus; PHIL 4840 Syllabus
Materials and Assignments...
Week 1: Matthew 22 and Part I of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
Week 2: St. Augustine, on the two cities; Hayek, on the two kinds of order in society.
Augustine reading and discussion questions; Hayek reading and discussion questions. Prepare for 01.29.
murmuration; school of fish; traffic1; traffic2; traffic3; hajj
Week 3: Rerum Novarum; private property; the roles of the church, the state, and labor.
Week 4: Quadragesimo Anno; individualism; subsidiarity; social justice; emergent order.
Quadragesimo Anno discussion questions; more discussion questions. Prepare for 02.12.
QA summary (Suzy)
Week 5: The common good and solidarity
discussion questions; more discussion questions. Prepare for 02.19.
Sollicitudo rei socialis and solidarity summary (Melvin)
Week 6: Evangelii Gaudium, ch. 4. 02.26.
discussion questions; more discussion questions. Prepare for 02.26.
Symposium readings - weeks 7 - 9.
Session: Why Help? Prepare for 03.05.
Session: Helping Well. Prepare for 03.19. [See 03.07 email. Link to reader is also below.]
Session: Business and the Logic of Gift. Prepare for 03.26. [You've already read the first part of Caritas in veritate. Add the rest for this week - and the Naughton pages.]
Week 10: 04.02. See Dr. Beabout's 03.19 email for the short presentation assignment.
On prudence:
The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church discusses prudence in Part 3, Chapter 12, in a section titled "Acting with Prudence": paragraphs 547 & 548
Practical Wisdom: Management's No Longer Forgotten Virtue, Journal of Business Ethics.
Presentations:
04.18 (Senior Legacy Symposium), 3:00, BSC 253 AB. Alex Mueller on "Obstacles to Housing."
04.18 (Senior Legacy Symposium), 4:00, BSC 251B. Daniel Carter on "The Road Between the Two Cities."
Remainder: independent project work and public project presentations.
Senior Legacy Symposium, 04.18, 3 - 5. (Department reservations due 02.12.)
St. Louis Area Undergraduate Research Symposium (No date posted as of 01.10.2018. 2017 was April 1.)
Announcements and Miscellaneous Stuff...
Links...
Dropbox link for submission of weekly written work.
McCloskey on bourgeois virtues - short version; a much longer version of her project, vol 1 of 6.