Sprawiedliwość społeczna – człowiek i wspólnota w świetle prawa i społecznej nauki Kościoła

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Chauvin
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
Legal Principle

The purpose of the article is to analyze the principle of social justice regualted by the Polish constitution as a category of legal language, the legal principle and the principle on which Catholic social teaching is built. Both in the opinion of the doctrine and the jurisprudence, clear references to claims in the field of Christian morality are visible. A man as a person (according to UDHR - All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights) should be supported by the community, including the state, especially if it belongs to the category of weaker or excluded entities. At the same time, however, as a member of this community he must adopt an active attitude, acting for the benefit of others. Catholic social teaching perfectly complements legal interpretation with a coherent axiological aspect.

Catholic Social Teaching

2015 ◽  
pp. 442-456
Author(s):  
David Matzko McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Rerum Novarum ◽  
The Common

This essay considers the modern tradition of Catholic social teaching (CST). CST finds its roots in the biblical, patristic, and medieval periods, but was inaugurated in particular by Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) and has been sustained by a range of papal encyclicals and conciliar documents since. The documents of CST emphasize that human beings are created for mutual cooperation and a pursuit of common good in social, economic, and political life. The essay considers first CST’s developing account of how social relations may be governed by Christian charity. It then considers the nature of property within economic relations as conceived within CST. The final section considers CST’s reflections on political life, which is understood as primarily personal and dependent on relations of mutual rights and responsibilities that are directed to the common good.

The Integrity of Creation: Catholic Social Teaching for an Ecological Age

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-203
Author(s):  
Denis Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Theological Foundations

All creatures have value in themselves because of their relationship to God. This article surveys four different attitudes of human beings to other creatures, explores the development of recent Catholic social teaching on the integrity of creation, and then offers reflections on the theological foundations for a commitment to the integrity of creation. It is argued that human beings are companions to other creatures in an earth community, that creation is the presence and self-expression of God, and that salvation in Jesus Christ embraces and transforms the whole universe.

Reinhold Niebuhr and Catholic Social Teaching on ‘Why Nations Fail’: Constructing a Common Christian Ethical Analysis of a New Theory of Political Economy

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-162
Author(s):  
James P. O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Christian View ◽  
The World ◽  
Developed Nations

In this paper the author undertakes a Christian ethical analysis of a prominent new theory of political economy by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. The analysis utilizes two commonly juxtaposed Christian sources, Reinhold Niebuhr and Catholic social teaching (cst), which allow for a common Christian analysis while also highlighting the nuance and variations of the Christian view. The author first makes the case for the compatibility of the understanding of basic social justice in Niebuhr and cst. Subsequently, the author expounds Acemoglu and Robinson’s account of the roots of development, poverty, and prosperity and then applies the insights of Niebuhr and cst. The aim is not to argue for the accuracy of Acemoglu and Robinson’s theory, but rather to show that Niebuhr and cst reveal deeper theological and ethical dimensions of this highly regarded empirical account, and that these dimensions compel greater action by the developed nations of the world.

scholarly journals Is Relationality Always Other-Oriented? Adam Smith, Catholic Social Teaching, and Civil Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Santori
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Economic View ◽  
Civil Economy

AbstractRecent studies have investigated connections between Adam Smith’s economic and philosophical ideas and Catholic Social Teaching (CST). Scholars argue that their common background lies in their respective anthropologies, both endorsing a relational view of human beings. I raise one main concern regarding these analyses. I suggest that the relationality endorsed by Smith lacks a central element present in CST—the other-oriented perspective which is the intentional concern for promoting the good of others. Some key elements of CST, such as love, gift, gratuitousness, and fraternity, find a very different space in Smith’s social view and very little space in his economic view. Moreover, I show how CST relationality is more in accordance with a civil economy view of the market as a place of fraternity and mutual assistance.

Democracy, society and truth: an exploration of Catholic social teaching

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-280
Author(s):  
Luke Bretherton
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis article maintains that modern Catholic social teaching took shape by positioning itself between revolutionary ideologies that sought to destroy the church and reactionary forces that sought to instrumentalise it. Among the factors that contributed to this development were the emergence of a theologyical and socio-political conception of the laity, reflection on the question of how humans participate in Christ's rule, the development of a consociational vision of sovereignty in distinction from top-down or monistic views, the importance of labour to a proper understanding of human dignity, and the discovery of ‘society’, as distinct from the market and the state. Appreciation of these factors resulted in the magisterial defence of democratic politics as a necessary condition for telling the truth about what it means to be human.

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