First, the courage to take up the subject on the progress initiated by Paul VI more than 40 years before and draw a bilancio.Punto focus on science-technology, market-economy, policy- state-globalization and multiculturalism.
Secondly, the revival of the concept of integral humanism versus atomization of society, among others incorporate concepts of Maritain and Guardini Raymond Aron of the laity. It is true that progress in which man progresses physically but to isolate and measure, and then he became judge of everything.
the third trial, firm, strict and clear about progress, but at the same time the sweetness to suggest corrections, and an invitation to hope that the man we can do to change course.
The encyclical does not condemn nor science, technology and globalization. Evaluates and corrects them.
Prior to promote the enterprise market or capitalist is recognized in paragraph (21) that the "fair profit" is not a bad indeed is the key to economic development. The company that makes fair profit is the driving force being deployed and the primary factor in promoting social work creates, distributes wages, generates opportunities for creative exchange with other companies, joins workers and consumers. The social enterprise by itself does not exist, the encyclical is the economic model proposed for development. The social enterprise is a valuable complement to meet the needs that are not marketization should be read with the right expectations is neither a substitute nor the state of the capitalist (38). In this sense, the most important economist close to the Church's thinking is certainly Röpke with his concept of ordoliberals (37-38).
The church for centuries knows that no human power structure, national or international level may be, can never be perfect and good to the point that the person should no longer be (57) .
Moreover, the encyclical itself denounces the corruption and waste of these large organizations. Faced with calls instead globalizazzione certain issues are discussed and decided with the greatest consensus among political leaders. Warning: It is not the nationalization of the world or the "super government."
I would say that the steps on this issue are not clear and linear as the rest of the encyclical. There was sufficient depth and the UN could be wrong, from a quick reading, the miracle solution. This paragraph (67) is poorly exposed.
encyclicals are never utopian ideologies are utopian. The church starts from reality to write his path does not mean that utopian ideal.
Who wants to investigate the source of the crisis found that everything started from a concept of goodness buggy state. What Clinton to give the private house to everyone even to those who do not could pay and the subprime problem started from there. Wrong to a concept of social and audience gooders brought us where we know, then the greed of some has done the rest. Nevertheless we continue to rely on interventions of this kind on many levels.
Finance has hurt but the policy had created the monster.
The encyclical is not made for the nations in the abstract is made for every man, later called the human heart where it is put to work. Switzerland has for years topped the world rankings for economic freedom and this is good. Thanks to this wealth Swiss distributed to charity in the world is a much higher percentage than other countries, such as those of the G20.
true poverty, at least in the West is no longer primarily material, but the degradation of the person. The self-sufficient, the isolation, the wild ride to do it alone, inability to ask for help, these are the virus of poverty.
If institutions are those places where it produces education, culture, pensieroe law as schools, courts and politics, then I think that the encyclical individuals really the weak point.
share. But I must point out that subsidiarity is not meant to proclaim or laws. It comes when a nation of people and thus agree to be protagonists of their lives and the lives of others, when they realize that it's their turn take responsibility, first delegate to the state, a problem or task.
It takes a premise and then: the desire to deal with problems where it is closest. It takes a leap of humanity.
should be careful with this interpretation: common good, equal to international solidarity. The UN is such solidarity in the politics of procreation and birth control force in underdeveloped countries.
In financial terms, if there are states that have unbearable taxation, uncontrolled government spending and government waste is not properly see the bad side only of the citizen who inappropriate behavior towards the tax, maybe even greed to state it would not hurt to investigate.
solodarietà The International Ticino, for what it can do, is already on excellence in welcoming people fleeing their countries and our immigration policy.
bisgona not subvert the right order of things. The social enterprise can exist only if other companies make profits and create a surplus of wealth to distribute and finance social enterprises (46).
said that it is wrong to define social what does it profit, and almost antisocial, which will produce profit. Both are social and only a fair relationship between profit and nonprofit health and allows full progress, not a table is defined by the categories mutually exclusive. All companies were not Soviet profit but highly anti-social.
I have to say that there are a few good years of financial products, micro-credit, which meet the twin requirements for humanitarian as well as those who receive and those of return for investors, something that is not against the other (45).
nationalized economy has completely failed at every level. The capitalist economy will continue to be the engine of economic well-being, but must take the corrective measures. Not on its purpose and function, but some genetic deviation errors.
The church through the great philosophers scoalstici Franciscans and Dominicans in the thirteenth century already managed to clear and release the profit from a demonic characterization, as well as a fair price, fair trade, the value of utility trading, buying and selling of charity etc .... The tradition has never denied this step and indeed has continued to refine it.
Civil society, but I'd say people are now called responsibly to decide how to spend their wealth to their advantage, the encyclical is clear: the goodness of profit is in the way it is produced and the way in which it is used (21). You can not escape, it is the responsibility of the individual involved, not abstract concepts of society, state, business, capitalism, socialism, politics, third sectors and so on ....
E 'comforting for me to discover that as sketched 4 years ago in modernizing the state fits well in what is the tradition of Catholic social teaching. Not only with this encyclical, but also with the previous ones.
I really like von Hayek said that if liberalism on the one hand and the Christian tradition not taking them to talk and to find points of agreement will go half the survival of Western civil.
My contribution was and remains unpiccolo local groped for this rapprochement, for now the outcome is bad. Continue in this work with the Circle of San Bernardino of Siena political culture founded this year.
