Rafael Pividal y Alberto Duhau: contributions and debates regarding the idea of democracy in the political thought of Catholic intellectuals

Authors

  • Álvaro Perpere Viñuales Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina

Keywords:

Theory of democracy, Catholic social thought, Maritain, Adam Smith, Liberalism

Abstract

In the late 1930’s, especially after Maritain’s visit to Argentina in 1936, several debates arouse among Argentine catholic intellectuals. One of the issues, among others, was the importance of democracy, specially its justification as a political system and its agreement with the teachings of the Catholic Church. However, even those who advocated democracy were not an homogenous group: both, the intellectual sources they consulted and the anthropological foundations of their arguments, were diverse. This article aims to develop the defense of democracy that made R. Pividal and A. Duhau, two of most representative catholic thinkers of this period. As I shall try to show, even when they coincide in highlighting the value of democracy and its full agreement with Catholicism, the authors that inspire them (Maritain and through him the opposition to Maurras and Rousseau in one case and Adam Smith andScottish Enlightment in the other case) force us to recognise that there is no more concordance than this possitive valoration of the democratic system.

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Author Biography

Álvaro Perpere Viñuales, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina

Candidato al doctorado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Navarra. Magíster en Economía y Ciencias Políticas (ESEADE) y licenciado en Filosofía (UCA). Profesor en las universidades
Católica Argentina y Austral.

Published

2017-11-24

How to Cite

Perpere Viñuales, Álvaro. (2017). Rafael Pividal y Alberto Duhau: contributions and debates regarding the idea of democracy in the political thought of Catholic intellectuals. Colección, (21), 65–92. Retrieved from https://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/COLEC/article/view/852

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Research Articles