The victory of Western liberal states ending the Cold War inspired the hope that international relations could be guided by the ideals of democracy and the rule of law. In the early 1990s, a group of thinkers developed the political project of cosmopolitan democracy with the aim of providing intellectual arguments in favour of an expansion of democracy, both within states and at the global level. While some significant successes have been achieved in terms of democratization within states, much less has been attained in democratizing the global system. The aim of this review article is twofold — on the one hand, to reassert the basic concepts of cosmopolitan democracy; on the other, to address the criticisms coming from Realist, Marxist, Communitarian and Multicultural perspectives.

Cosmopolitan Democracy and its Critics: A Review:

The English Reformation

Moral Philosophy I is a course currently given at the Faculty of Philosophy, NUIM. It defines ethics as what we think it is appropriate to do, and consequently analyses what it is to do something (action theory); what it is to consider something appropriate (value theory) and who 'we' are (community theory). It does so by treating immigration as a moral problem.

Moral Philosophy I

The doctoral thesis was an study about Miquel Mai, a politic, jurist, bibliophile and art collector in Barcelona in the first half of the XVI century. The thesis presents the figure of Miquel Mai by his biographic history, with emphasis in the principals chapters that he was participant. After, there was a chapter whose principal theme its the connection between Miquel Mai and the Erasmism movement. Third, it was an analysis of all the art objects that Miquel Mai accumulates. Fourth, the thesis explores the library (formed by more than 2000 books). And finally, we studied the relationship between the art objects who decorate the library and the same books that was in the library.

Miquel Mai (ca. 1480-1546). Art i cultura a la cort de Carles V

The Concept of Grace

The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith. John O'Malley, a distinguished scholar of the Renaissance and Reformation, has decisively challenged this interpretation, emphasizing the variety, vitality, and complexity of Catholicism in the early modern era. The essays in Early Modern Catholicism, written in O'Malley's honour, present new research on subjects ranging from art in China to popular religion, from new religious orders to colonial architecture, and suggest new interpretations of the accepted picture of various societies, institutions, and individuals which together constituted the Catholic Church in the period from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. The book examines a wide variety of themes through many different methodologies and perspectives including social, art-historical, legal, educational, musicological, and philosophical. Unique in both scope and subject, it is a significant contribution to the growing field of interdisciplinary studies of Early Modern Catholicism, and will be especially useful in a number of courses in history and religion.

Early modern Catholicism : essays in honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J.

Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John O’Malley, S.J.

The Adages of Erasmus

Arguably the most influential theologian in the Latin West, Augustine of Hippo conventionally figures as the greatest ally, after the Bible, of Protestantism in Reformation Europe. Roman Catholics,...

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Peter Canisius and the “Truly Catholic” Augustine

Offering a detailed examination of various editorial interventions, this book demonstrates Erasmus of Rotterdam’s self-promotion, religious purpose, and novelty in editing St. Jerome’s letters, as well as his debt to previous and influence on subsequent editions of the Church Father.

Hilmar M. Pabel

Papers

Early modern Catholicism : essays in honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J.

Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John O’Malley, S.J.

The Adages of Erasmus

Peter Canisius and the “Truly Catholic” Augustine

Herculean Labours: Erasmus and the Editing of St. Jerome's Letters in the Renaissance