Abstract
Abstract
This chapter provides the second argument against Catholic integralism, the stability argument. Integralists characterize their view as a moral order. More formally, integralism establishes a social equilibrium. The system must reach equilibrium chiefly because its citizens act morally, and not primarily due to legal coercion. Integralism must have a moral stability to count as a moral order. The chapter claims that integralist orders systematically destabilize owing to factors that integralists themselves emphasize. Sin will create moral disagreement, as will natural factors like errant human reason. Destabilizing forces outweigh the stabilizing forces of divine grace. Integralism is not a moral order, and so integralism is not true.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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