Roman Catholic Social Thought on Social Justice and Economics: Elements for Debate from Caritas Veritate

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-142
Author(s):  
Roberto Puggioni ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Catholic Social Thought

Virtue, Catholic, and Feminist Ethics

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Anna L. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
Feminist Care Ethics

The theories highlighted in this chapter—virtue ethics, feminist ethics, Roman Catholic social thought, and liberation theology—are driven by substantive, normative claims about the good and ways to achieve it. They also all share a social view of human nature and a conviction that ethics is integrated with other parts of life, not an isolated sphere of decision-making. The chapter begins with virtue ethics, including its Aristotelian roots and several contemporary interpreters. It then turns to feminist care ethics, which makes emotions, relationships, and practices crucial to defining the good. Finally, the chapter looks at Catholic ethics, including liberation theology, which insists that in their practices, people may share in the divine process of creation and perhaps even help build the reign of God. In different ways, these models all challenge the idealist, rationalist, and individualist emphases of mainstream ethics.

Property and Justice in the Modern Encyclical Literature

1990 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Andrew Lustig
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Language ◽  
The Common

In Catholic social thought since the time of Leo XIII, two important developments have influenced justificatory arguments for the institution of property. First, the traditional language of the “common good” has been augmented by an emphasis in recent encyclicals upon the dignity of persons and the rights of individuals. I shall analyze the warrants for this shift in formulation to see how changes in the language of justification reveal both continuities and discontinuities with the earlier tradition. Second, in the past century of Roman Catholic social thought, understandings of natural law have been subject to significant revision. Especially since the time of John XXIII, the papal encyclicals have sought both to “historicize” and to update those elements in the traditional discussion of property that fail to reflect modern socioeconomic circumstances. In reviewing the recent encyclical literature on these themes, I will consider how, or whether, earlier discussion can be successfully modernized without undercutting the raison d'etre of natural-law terminology in the process.

What Theology Should and Should Not Learn from the Social Sciences About the Common Good

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary L. Hirschfeld
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

There are two ways to answer the question, What can Catholic social thought learn from the social sciences about the common good? A more modern form of Catholic social thought, which primarily thinks of the common good in terms of the equitable distribution of goods like health, education, and opportunity, could benefit from the extensive literature in public policy, economics, and political science, which study the role of institutions and policies in generating desirable social outcomes. A second approach, rooted in pre-Machiavellian Catholic thought, would expand on this modern notion to include concerns about the way the culture shapes our understanding of what genuine human flourishing entails. On that account, the social sciences offer a valuable description of human life; but because they underestimate how human behavior is shaped by institutions, policies, and the discourse of social science itself, their insights need to be treated with caution.

Catholic Social Thought: Its Approach to Contemporary Problems

1950 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Eva J. Ross ◽  
Melvin J. Williams ◽  
Rev. Paul Hanly Furfey
Keyword(s):  
Social Thought ◽  
Catholic Social Thought
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