Carson Holloway (Ph.D. Northern Illinois University) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a former William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is the author of Magnanimity and Statesmanship (2008), The Right Darwin: Evolution, Religion, and the Future of Democracy (2006), and All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (2000).
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Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Gospel of Life and the Culture of Death 3. Hobbes and the Origins of Liberal Modernity 4. Locke's Theistic Liberalism 5. Hume and the Morality of Sympathy 6. The Ambiguity of the American Founding 7. Tocqueville and the Moral Trajectory of Modern Democracy 8. Conclusion Bibliography
Holloway explicates how the late John Paul II profoundly understood the foundations of modern liberalism. -David Novak, J. Richard and Dororthy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto Recommended. General readers, all undergraduates, graduates, and researchers. -- CHOICE