The Nature and Extent of Catholic Political Action in Postsecular Societies
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Abstract
Confronted with the crises of liberal democracy and institutional religion, this work argues that Catholic political action, seen as a tradition of thought rather than as a dogmatic religion, understands the tensions between the individual and the community, immanence and transcendence, and faith and reason through the notion of the dignity of the person, which constitutes an alternative to the “individual” of liberalism. The introduction discusses the crises of liberal democracy and of the Catholic church and explains the reach and limits of this work. The first chapter analyzes the notion of “political theology,” suggesting that, while the theologico-political is an inescapable dimension of human existence, a Christian political theology, understood as the attempt to make the earthly city resemble the heavenly one, thus immanentizing what is originally transcendental, must be rejected. The second chapter argues that secularity implies not the end of religion but a transformation of religious belief wherein religion becomes one among many alternative answers to the problem of existence. The third chapter studies the political implications of the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic church and focuses on two reactions to the council that ended up immanentizing the notion of the “kingdom of God.” The fourth chapter introduces the Catholic idea of the person as an alternative to the liberal individual and situates Catholic political action at the local level. The fifth chapter portrays Catholic political action as a tradition of thought and studies its most important contributions for contemporary political thought.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".