taparelli social justice mention not thomist according to fortin According to the prominent theologian and political philosopher Ernest Fortin , Luigi Taparelli d’Azeglio’s coining of "social justice" in the 1840s is not strictly Thomist , but rather a problematic 19th-century hybrid. While Taparelli aimed to spark a Thomistic revival, Fortin argues that his introduction of "social justice" and modern "natural rights" represents a significant, unacknowledged departure from the authentic political philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas . [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] Fortin's critique of Taparelli's "social justice" centers on three main structural arguments: 1. It is an Ideological Hybrid, Not a Classic Virtue Fortin famously designated "social justice" as a "typical nineteenth-century hybrid out of which nobody has yet been able to make much sense" . [ 1 ] The Classical View : For Thomas Aquinas, justice is always an individual vir...
Taparelli has a good claim to being the father of Catholic social teaching. One of his students was the Jesuit Matteo Liberatore, who wrote the first draft of Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of the Working Classes), the first papal statement on “the social question.” Leo himself, as we have noted, had been a student of Taparelli’s, his collaborator at the Civiltà Cattolica, and seems to have been influenced by him. [First pope to use term SJ was PXI] Pius XI used to recommend the study of Taparelli’s works in conversations with his friends and colleagues.
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