On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law

＂In this collection of essays, Francis Russell Hittinger shows that Catholic social teaching is not only an articulate defense of the dignity of the human person, but perhaps more fundamentally an elucidation of the dignity of society. Indeed, Hittinger enables us to see that one cannot properly defend the dignity of the person without also showing the dignity of societies in which human persons - as naturally familial, political, and ecclesial animals - seek their own perfection in communion with others＂--

F. Russell Hittinger is Warren Chair of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa. Scott Roninger is associate professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See