Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no longer given, previous to man's freedom, but are rather realities based on freedom, taken on and modified by man. This new definition of politics carefully distinguishes between state and society. The distinction . allows us to differentiate between the public sphere of the state of the Church (or the combination of them) as powers from the public sphere 'in which the interests of all men as a social group are expressed. .Anonymous
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The functions of the state are not to be opposed to those of civil society. In his essay "The Political Order of the Third Age" (1961), Jacques Maritain describes a new conception of politics as "an order of freedom" and explains how the state is now seen as a separate entity from civil society. In other words, politics is now seen as an expression of civil society, not the other way around. For him, the state does not replace society, but is rather one expression of it.
Source: A Theology Of Liberation
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