Quote of the Day
Pope Francis: “To always protect the common good…this is the vocation of every politician.”
Tag: Common Good
Solidarity, Imago Dei, and the Catholic Case against Libertarianism
As prepared for delivery at “Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case against Libertarianism” (with minor edits). Updated with video. As I began preparing for today, I went back and reread some of the theoretical texts of libertarianism – Friedman, Nozick, Rand, and Hayek. These provide the intellectual claims upon which today’s political libertarian agenda are based.… Read More Solidarity, Imago Dei, and the Catholic Case against Libertarianism
Conservatives Must Increase Economic Security Not Undermine It
According to the idiosyncratic twentieth-century French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, “Order is the first need of all.” She wrote this line while enumerating the needs of the human soul, and defined order as “a texture of social relationships such that no one is compelled to violate imperative obligations in order to carry out other… Read More Conservatives Must Increase Economic Security Not Undermine It
Quote of the Day
Cardinal Sean O’Malley: “Our striving for the common good in society is simply a logical corollary of our love of neighbor. Unjust structures and oppressive political and economic systems result when ethics and virtue are banished from the public square as irrelevant to building a just and humane society.”
Why Inequality is the Root of Social Evil
There is a common root to most (or perhaps all) grave forms of social injustice: the rejection of human equality and the influence of this rejection on human relationships and institutions. Human persons are fundamentally equal in their worth and dignity. A person’s worth is not dependent on their lineage, how they fit in some… Read More Why Inequality is the Root of Social Evil
Quote of the Day
Pope Francis: “I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.”
Quote of the Day
Cardinal Peter Turkson: “The common good, the goal of all human striving, is personal and social and universal.”
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