Search

Part of Social Movements: 1. Social Problems 2. Socialism 3. Christian Social Movement 4. Christian Social Doctrine 5. Social Work A. General Christian social doctrine is usually taken simply as the equivalent of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church. Whether there exists as well a Protestant social doctrine comparable in extent and importance or only a Protestant teaching on social ethics, is disputed even among Protestants themselves. Scarcely even the rudiments of a social doctrine can be found in the Eastern…

Part of Social Movements: 1. Social Problems 2. Socialism 3. Christian Social Movement 4. Christian Social Doctrine 5. Social Work Socialism is the collective name for a multitude of systems and movements critical of existing society. All of them, it is fair to say, attach as much importance to man’s social nature as to his individuality, oppose his self-centredness, emphasize his duties, as a member of the community, towards his fellows and particularly towards the various social bodies to which he belongs. In thi…

Part of Social Movements: 1. Social Problems 2. Socialism 3. Christian Social Movement 4. Christian Social Doctrine 5. Social Work The Christian social movement is a recent development, social problems in the modern sense having come to light very late in the course of human history. Aristotle called man a ζῶον πολιτιϰόν, which is generally translated ens sociale. But in fact he and his successors for the next two thousand years recognized only the societas politica. For them society and the State were identical. O…

Part of Economic Ethics: Part I Part II Business ethics pertains to a sphere of economics which only exists in a “social” economy, and one that is organized on a commercial basis. In a “social” economy a social process intervenes between the natural processes of the production and consumption of goods that go on in every economy (even one like Robinson Crusoe’s). In the case of a household, or a fully communist society, this intermediate process is an allotment of burdens and benefits: the head of the h…

Part of Social Movements: 1. Social Problems 2. Socialism 3. Christian Social Movement 4. Christian Social Doctrine 5. Social Work While the substance of social doctrine — the doctrine of man as a social being (philosophical [metaphysical] and theological anthropology) — holds good everywhere and in every age, it has constantly to be applied in new and different ways because of constant changes in the milieu, the steady increase of population, the growing interdependence of the members of society, and the transform…