Joseph Cardinal Höffner CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ... - Ordo Socialis

e) The Ethos of Advertising ....................................................................................................125
§ 5 The Adjustment of the Original Income Formation through the System
of Social Security ............................................................................................ 126
l. The Extent of Redistribution....................................................................................................126
2. Objections................................................................................................................................126
3. Critical Evaluation...................................................................................................................127
4. Towards a Societal Policy.......................................................................................................128
SECTION FOUR: THE STATE....................................................................... 128
Preliminary Remarks............................................................................................. 128
Chapter one: Origin and Meaning of the State................................................ 130
§ 1 The Multiplicity of Interpretations.................................................................. 130
l. Theocracy.................................................................................................................................130
2. The Ideology of Power............................................................................................................130
3. The Enlightenment Individualist Interpretation of the State...................................................132
a) Thomas Hobbes..................................................................................................................132
b) Jean Jacques Rousseau ......................................................................................................132
§ 2 Origin and Meaning of the State According to Christian Social Teaching .... 133
l. The Socio-Theological Interpretation ......................................................................................133
2. The Socio-Philosophical Interpretation...................................................................................134
Chapter two: Governmental Authority ............................................................ 135
§ 1 The Natural-Law Character of Governmental Authority................................ 135
§ 2 Holder of Governmental Authority................................................................. 136
l. The Nation as Original Holder of Governmental Authority ....................................................136
2. Objection to the Doctrine of the Nation as Original Holder of Governmental Authority ......137
3. The Historical Conditionedness of the Form of Government .................................................137
§ 3 Rights and Duties of Governmental Authority ............................................... 139
1. The right to levy taxes,............................................................................................................139
2. The Right to impose the Death Penalty...................................................................................140
3. War and Peace.........................................................................................................................141
a) Christian tradition on war and peace ................................................................................141
b). War and Peace in the Nuclear Age ...................................................................................143
c) Three Disputable Theses ....................................................................................................143
d). Ten Guiding Principles .....................................................................................................145
§ 4 Limits of Governmental Authority and the People’s Right to Resist ............. 148
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