Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism, which you can get free from the CESJ website, or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Today we look at distributive justice, the “out-take principle” that governs distributions from a common endeavor. Distributive justice, in one sense, is an individual virtue built on commutative justice, commutative justice being the most basic form of justice.
Life in the Clouds . . . of Aristophanes . . . an example of “the New Comedy” . . . of 2,000 years ago:
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Occasionally, we feel the urge to explain a little about social justice. This is usually prompted by a comment or question from a faithful reader or two. This time it was sparked by a comment someone made on FaceBook about how they aren’t interested in helping people one-on-one, but in changing the system that makes it necessary to help people.
Why did Socrates refuse to escape and stay, knowing he would be sentenced to death?
This week the experts are trying to scare people by raising the specter of inflation versus recession . . . forgetting (or ignoring) the fact that there is no correlation between economic growth and inflation, and recession and lowering inflation. This is evident once we understand the Just Third Way of Economic Personalism and economic reality as applied in the Economic Democracy Act:
Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism, which you can get free from the CESJ website, or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Is there a difference between apologizing and apologetics? Specifically, in Plato’s Apologia, why didn’t Socrates apologize for anything . . . as we mean apologizing today?
Again, this week in the news items we have more of the same, only more so. We know we sound like a broken record (obscure cultural allusion; “records” used to “break” in a way that would cause them to keep repeating the same phrase or notes over and over), but the only way we see out of the dilemma is to adopt the Economic Democracy Act:
Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism, which you can get free from the CESJ website, or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
As we may have mentioned a few thousand times on this blog, personalist social justice is distinguished from the collectivist and individualist version by not being a substitute for charity or a euphemism for redistribution. Need-based distribution is individual charity, except in cases of “extreme need” when it falls under distributive justice as an expedient. Personalist social justice is the virtue concerned with restructuring the social order to make it possible for people to take care of themselves.
What is the meaning and purpose of life? To get more stuff? Or to become more fully human, that is, virtuous?
Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism, which you can get free from the CESJ website, or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Louis Kelso’s and Mortimer Adler’s breakthroughs in moral philosophy (with the principles of economic justice) and in economics and finance (with future savings) were “the missing links” in Catholic social teaching. Combined with Pius XI’s definition of social justice, Kelso’s and Adler’s financial systems concept and principles of economic justice — connecting economic personalism with economic justice — made a truly personalist social order possible as explicit policy for the first time in history.