The Miracle of Mercy and the Mandate of Justice

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Chris E.W. Green
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
Deep Sources ◽  
Social Upheaval

Abstract Daniela Augustine’s The Spirit and the Common Good continues her project of imagining the Christian life as a life given to iconizing the creator and thus sanctifying the creation. Drawing on the deep sources of Orthodox theology and post-modern philosophy, she casts a vision of the common good drawn by the church’s participation in the Spirit’s ‘world-mending artistry’. This review asks what her work means for American Pentecostals in the context of the current social upheaval and political reckoning.

scholarly journals Community building as an educational task

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldemar Segiet
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Educational Task ◽  
Reflexive Modernity ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation

Along with the description of contemporary societies, including the indication of clear tendencies towards „individualisation” of lifespan, focusing on subjects that observe themselves with reflection, an issue appears regarding the creation of a community, including the educational one. A peculiar outline of the reflexive modernity is recognised on the basis the ways how individuals achieve social integration. Despite the differentiating forms of social and cultural life, the foundation of the accomplishment of self and the society,is still „community”, which constitutes an encouragement to enter the issue of social (dis)integration, an inspiration allowing to bestow a defined sense on democracy, and socialization processes. Therefore, the need to consider the issues of communities arises, including their confirmation in education. To present a path for social integration, with the full awareness that in modern societies the „common good” ideal is being lost, one should be accompanied by indications regarding education itself. One may reduce them to how the community constituted due to and within education, ensured the integration of all entities concerned, and helped accomplish democracy.

A Failure of Modernization: Police Reform, The “Common Good,” and Serfdom In Eighteenth-Century Russia

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-271
Author(s):  
Hugh D. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation

For Russian subjects not locked away in their villages and thereby subject almost exclusively to landlord control, administration in the eighteenth century increasingly took the form of the police. And as part of the bureaucracy of governance, the police existed within the constructions of the social order—as part of social relations and their manifestations through political control. This article investigates the social and mental structures—the habitus—in which the actions of policing took place to provide a better appreciation of the difficulties of reform and modernization. Eighteenth-century Russia shared in the European discourse on the common good, the police, and social order. But whereas Michel Foucault and Michael Ignatieff see police development in Europe with its concern to surveil and discipline emerging from incipient capitalism and thus a product of new, post-Enlightenment social forces, the Russian example demonstrates the power of the past, of a habitus rooted in Muscovy. Despite Peter’s and especially Catherine’s well-intended efforts, Russia could not succeed in modernization, for police reforms left the enserfed part of the population subject to the whims of landlord violence, a reflection, in part, of Russia having yet to make the transition from the feudal manorial economy based on extra-economic compulsion to the capitalist hired-labor estate economy. The creation of true centralized political organization—the creation of the modern state as defined by Max Weber—would require the state’s domination over patrimonial jurisdiction and landlord control over the police. That necessitated the reforms of Alexander II.

scholarly journals Budowanie wspólnoty zadaniem edukacyjnym

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Waldemar Segiet
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Reflexive Modernity ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation

Along with the description of contemporary societies, including the indication of clear tendencies towards „individualisation” of lifespan, focusing on subjects that observe themselves with reflection, an issue appears regarding the creation of a community, including the educational one. A peculiar outline of the reflexive modernity is recognised on the basis the ways how individuals achieve social integration.Des pite the differentiating forms of social and cultural life, the foundation of the accomplishment of self and the society, is still „community”, which constitutes an encouragement to enter the issue of social (dis)integration, an inspiration allowing to bestow a defined sense on democracy, and socialization processes. Therefore, the need to consider the issues of communities arises, including their confirmation in education. To present a path for social integration, with the full awareness that in modern societies the „common good” ideal is being lost, one should be accompanied by indications regarding education itself. One may reduce them to how the community constituted due to and within education, ensured the integration of all entities concerned, and helped accomplish democracy.

Method in Ecumenism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organic Unity ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
Messianic Judaism ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

Method can mean either the steps taken to achieve church unity or the principles appropriate to the study of ecumenism. Most ecumenists have sought organic unity; they have hoped that agreement on the issue of authority would further this end. This turned out to be impossible, and recently there has been a shift from epistemology to pneumatology. This shift allows for a third option beyond the claims of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, on the one hand, and Magisterial Protestantism, on the other, as regards ecclesial continuity. We can think of the creation of the church as the reinstantiation of primitive Christianity in the wake of Pentecost. Messianic Judaism provides telling warrant for pursuing this option. This shift also provides fresh hope for ecumenism by moving beyond conciliar conversations about doctrine, and calling instead for gift-sharing—that is, the realistic sharing of what we actually think are gifts for the common good.

scholarly journals Alliances between For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations as an Instrument to Implement the Economy for the Common Good

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9511
Author(s):  
Carmen Talavera ◽  
Joan R. Sanchis
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Non Profit Organizations

The model of the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) has cooperation as one of its main principles. This alternative economic model proposes to prioritize cooperation over competition to favor the creation of social value. From this point of view, strategic alliances between organizations can be used as an instrument that supports implementation of the ECG model. In recent years, alliances between for-profit and non-profit entities have been strengthened as a method to facilitate actions focused on social responsibility and sustainability. Moreover, the ECG model has become an adequate management framework for corporate sustainability. This work aims to connect alliances between for-profit and non-profit organizations with the ECG model. First, this connection is manifested in a theoretical way. This paper is going to analyze how such alliances can contribute to increasing the values of the ECG model: human dignity, solidarity and social justice, environmental sustainability, and transparency and codetermination. Afterwards, this work analyzes two cases of this type of alliance—Grupo Vips-Fundación Hazlo Posible and Danone Foods-Grameen Bank—to determine the benefits that this type of cooperation can provide to society. We study their motives and the benefits that they bring to the organizations and the community. Therefore, this work assesses how these types of alliances influence the different topics included in the Common Good Matrix. Moreover, we conduct a comparative analysis between both cases. This work demonstrates that, by implementing this type of strategic alliances, the creation of social value is favored, thus contributing to implementation of the ECG model.

scholarly journals In search of an ethnolinguistic paradigm: A glossary of key terms and concepts

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-103
Author(s):  
Jerzy Bartmiński
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Key Terms

The paper?s author examines to what extent ethnolingustics meets the paradigmatic criteria according to Thomas Kuhn (?A paradigm is the thing that divides the members of the scientific community and vice versa, the scientific community connects people sharing a certain paradigm?) and compares the key terms which constitute this discipline?s instrumentarium. The author focuses on the researchers gathered around the international annual titled Etnolingwistyka, the representatives of the approach known as the Lublin School of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics. Two dictionaries are representative of the School: S?ownik stereotyp?w i symboli ludowych (Vol. 1-2, 1996-2020) and the five-volume lexicon titled Leksykon aksjologiczny S?owian i ich s?siad?w (2015-2019). According to the author, based on these two dictionaries and the accompanying publications, it is already possible to compile a glossary of key terms of ethnolinguistics. Such glossary would consist of several key concepts: the linguistic worldview, concept (synonymous with ?stereotype?), viewpoint and perspective, cognitive definition, profiling and profile, subject, values, etc. This terminological apparatus was particularly used in the creation of the said axiological lexicon and has now become the common good of the whole team of authors. This corresponds to Kuhn?s second postulate.

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