The family principle: Sociopolitical framework

Abstract

This text develops the family principle within the classical and Christian tradition especially in Thomas Aquinas arguing that the family is a natural institution rather than a voluntary construct defined by its causes and oriented toward the family common good with marriage as its efficient cause it examines its place within an organic social order where political society is more perfect without absorbing the family criticizes both liberal individualism and family-centered doctrines that grant it undue primacy and high lights the analogy between family and politics as well as its relevance for forms of government.