The Road of Charity Leads to the Picket Lines
The Neo-Thomistic Revival and the Italian Catholic Labor Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9967916 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sándor Agócs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-50 |
| Publication date | 1973-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002085900000417x |
| OpenAlex | W2018737080 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
One of the most important aspects of late nineteenth century European intellectual life was the revival of Thomism, which enveloped the philosophical, social and political outlooks of Catholics. The great influence of the Neo-Thomistic intellectual current appears somewhat enigmatic in view of recent criticism of the methods and substantive propositions employed by turn of the century Thomistic philosophers. The very word “philosopher” might in fact be justifiably denied to many of these Neo-Thomists, since they seem to have forgotten too often that philosophy means asking questions. It is rare to see in their works a creative application of Thomistic ideas to the modern world. Instead, they attempted to fit modern society into a rigid, dogmatic framework of Thomistic principles. And if these principles turned out to be straightjackets, neither philosophy nor Aquinas, but only the Neo-Thomists are to blame. For Aquinas' philosophy, as Etienne Gilson and Ralph M. McInerny have recently pointed out, was an extremely creative adaptation of Aristotle's thought to medieval intellectual, social and political conditions, as well as to the principles of Christianity. Aquinas' method of continuous questioning stood in contrast to the dogmatism of most of his self-proclaimed disciples in modern times
Blame · Christianity · Criticism · Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Thomism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 1975 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |