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relation bw thomistic understanding of justice and the social teaching of the church? |
- "social justice" -- is just another name for "general justice" - potential parts of justice illuminate the particular modes of justice (liberality, piety, truthfulness) |
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Rerum Novarum: |
- Leo XIII against marxism - person is made in image of God - rights to: fair pay, private property, unions - importance of the family ("the first society") |
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basis for the whole of the Church's social teaching: |
man as being in the image of God |
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justice vs. charity |
- justice: what one is owed --- objectivity --- impersonal - charity: more than what owed --- personal solidarity is a union of justice and charity |
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solidarity = |
"we're in this together" - balances subsidiarity |
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common good = connection of CG to man's social nature |
"the sum total of social conditions which allowpeople, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment morefully and more easily" --- since man is a social creature, the CG is a fundamental part of man's existence |
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TA re: private property: |
a man cares better for that which is his own |
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TA and the problem of communication in society: |
1) generating trust via truthfulness 2) generating stability via peace, truthfulness 3) generating civic friendship via truthfulness |
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how is trust, stability, and friendship destroyed in a society? |
- sins against truth, and against justice, ultimately: - defamation - detraction - whispering - derision |
defamation: diminishing someone's reputation detraction: destroying someone's reputation secretly whispering: destroying someone's friendships through detraction derision: verbal abuse |
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Evangelium Vitae points |
- sacredness of human life - against capital punishment - against researching w/ embryos - against euthanasia |
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how does TA address care for one's health? |
considering - gluttony - sobriety - drunkenness |
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man should care for his life acc. to ordinary means; but... |
he is not bound to care for his life via extraordinary means (Banez OP the first to use this term) |
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CCC: discontinuing medical procedures that are -, -, -, -, is OK |
- burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, disproportionate - money can often render ordinary care extraordinary, btw |
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justice issues in marriage/family life |
mostly a matter of the society creating conditions that are hospitable to the family, since families are the basis of society ("first societies" [RN]) |
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patriotism: |
virtue of piety political authority is legitimate, when used rightly voting is a positive obligation |
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capital punishment acc. to TA: |
- cutting off diseased limb - a murderer has made himself a brute beast - the punishment is inflicted by the community, by those entrusted with the CG |
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just war conditions: |
1) lasting, grave, certain 2) other means exhausted 3) prospect of success 4) effect: the war can't produce evils greater than the evil to be eliminated |
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just war acc. to TA: |
- by authority of sovereign, not civilian - addressing a wrong - good intention of sovereign |
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Francisco de Vitoria re: 3 rules of war |
1) strive to avoid war
2) engage only for sake of justice 3) exercise moderation/humility in war |
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a theology of work: |
- human work continues God's work of creation - work is a duty (st. paul) - work uses one's gifts given by God - work as a means of sanctification |
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TA re: justice in the marketplace: |
it's ok for the tradesman to sell things at a profit |
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TA: re: theology of work: |
manual labor is directed to 4 things: - obtain food - removal of idleness - curbing of concupiscence - like to almsgiving labor can be both manual and spiritual/intellectual |
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TA re: usury |
bad, bc it is to "sell something twice" - money is made for use, so to charge for its use is ridiculous |
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