RT Article
T1 The Distributist Paradigm as Shown through Some Objections
JF American catholic philosophical quarterly
VO 99
IS 2
SP 197
OP 214
A1 Cross, Bryan R.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1936043343
AB In this paper I argue that distributism should be understood as part of a paradigm composed of other moral principles, such that living in accord with distributism requires and presupposes the practice of these moral principles. To support my argument, I use a criticism of distributism by Alexander Salter in his recent book The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good to illustrate the paradigmatic nature of the difference between the distributist paradigm and that of economic liberalism. I then consider some other objections to distributism from its contemporary critics, showing how these criticisms make use of assumptions within economic liberalism that are not shared by the distributist paradigm.
DO 10.5840/acpq2025521316