2. -- What is good?
-- Is good really common?
-- Is it good that all bus
companies will be suspended
due to the single horrendous
accident in Tanay Rizal?
-- Is it good to suspend all off-
campus activities due to the
incident in Tanay Rizal involving
Beslink students?
5. COMMON GOOD
“the sum total of social
conditions which allow
people, either as groups or
as individuals, to reach
their fulfilment more fully
and more easily”.[346]
(CST 164)
9. Common?
Only together ….
involves all members of
society, no one is exempt
from cooperating,
according to each one's
possibilities, in attaining it
and developing it (167)
10. COMMON GOOD
Also known as:
The social and community
dimension of the moral
good. (CST 164)
11. What is GOOD
--respect for & integral
promotion of the person
and his fundamental rights
12. HOW TO SECURE
COMMON GOOD
1. commitment to peace,
2. the organization of the State's
powers,
3. a sound juridical system,
4. the protection of the environment,
5. and the provision of essential
services to all,
(CST 166)
13. HOW TO SECURE COMMON
GOOD
Essential Services= human rights
food, housing, work, education and
access to culture, transportation,
basic health care, the freedom of
communication and expression,
and the protection of religious
freedom
14. The Principle of Common Good
leads to a new understanding of
the political community.
What is government?
15. 168. The responsibility for attaining
the common good, besides falling
to individual persons, belongs also
to the State, since the common
good is the reason that the political
authority exists[355].
16. Duty of the government:
harmonize the different sectoral
interests with the requirements
of justice
20. Do I have right to use the goods
of the earth?
YES, I have rights.
The right to the common use of
goods is the “first principle of the
whole ethical and social order”
(CST 172)
21. If I have rights to use, can I use it
anytime I want?
Each person must have access to
the level of well-being necessary
for his full development. (CST 172)
22. The right to use is the problem of
access:
Equitable & orderly fashion
Regulation
Interventions for the common
good
Juridical order – adjudicates the
specific use of this right
25. How do students relate with teachers?
How do teachers relate with
administrators?
In UST, with so many actors, how are
we going to interact with each other?
In the family, how do children & parents
relate with one another?
In a political community, how do the
people and the politicians relate with
one another?
32. Subsidiarity (meaning)
“Just as it is gravely wrong to take from
individuals what they can accomplish by their
own initiative and industry and give it to the
community, so also it is an injustice and at the
same time a grave evil and disturbance of right
order to assign to a greater and higher
association what lesser and subordinate
organizations can do. For every social activity
ought of its very nature to furnish help to the
members of the body social, and never destroy
and absorb them”[399].
34. Double edge-Relation
(1) gravely wrong to take from
individuals what they can
accomplish by their own initiative
and industry and give it to the
community,
(2) injustice and at the same time a
grave evil and disturbance of right
order to assign to a greater and
higher association what lesser and
subordinate organizations can do
38. Implication
No to the ff:
centralization,
bureaucratization,
welfare assistance and
to the unjustified and
excessive presence of the
State in public mechanisms.
46. Doctrine of Participation
contributes to the cultural,
economic, political and
social life of the civil
community to which one
belongs
Subsidiarity (on the part of the
individual, lower, member)
47. Subsidiarity (on the part of the
individual, lower, member)
Doctrine of Participation
duty to be fulfilled
consciously by all, with
responsibility and with a
view to the common good[
51. Basic truths of human existence
intrinsic social nature of the human person, the
equality of all in dignity and rights and the
common path of individuals and peoples
towards an ever more committed unity.
52. Basic truths of human existence
1) The intrinsic social nature of the
human person,
2) the equality of all in dignity and
rights
3) The common path of individuals
and peoples towards an ever more
committed unity.
53. Basic truths of human existence
These 3 basic truths
Leads to the 4th principle
SOLIDARITY
54. The 3 basic truths summarized in
the principle of solidarity implies
Interdependence
Interconnectedness
between individual & peoples at
every level
55. The 3 basic truths summarized in
the principle of solidarity implies
Interdependence
Interconnectedness
between individual & peoples at
every level
57. Problem of interdependence
(1) inequalities between developed
and developing countries,
(2) inequalities stoked also by
various forms of exploitation,
oppression and corruption locally
and internally
59. Inferences:
1. The increasing gap between developing and
developed countries indicates the absence and
continuing disregard for solidarity.
2. The current global economic and political structure
that allows the developed countries to progress
exponentially while impoverishes the
developing/under-developed countries clearly
indicate the unequal and unfair treatment to all;
some are treated as more humans than others, a
clear disregard of the principle of Solidarity
3. As long as there are sectors of society who feel
exploited and oppressed clearly indicate that such
society violates the principle of solidarity and inter-
dependence
60. Inferences:
1. Furthermore, the principle of interdependence
leads us to the conclusion that a society is
unjust and unfair by the mere presence of the
poor, exploited, marginalized and oppressed.
2. The injustice committed is simply based on the
fact that the structure-the socio-cultural,
economic and political-failed to provide equal
opportunities and development for all.
61. ethical-social solidarity
It is the inherent responsibility of
the individual/the group/the
community/the state to care,
support, assist, and develop the
poor, the exploited, the
oppressed and the marginalized.
62. ethical-social solidarity
Why am I oblige?
Under the principle of solidarity
1. Their being poor is partly my
responsibility
2. They are human beings like
me.
3. Most important, they are the
image of God.
63. ethical-social solidarity
Why am I oblige?
Under the principle of solidarity
1. Their being poor is partly my
responsibility
2. They are human beings like
me.
3. Most important, they are the
image of God.
70. WHY? IT IS BECAUSE
1. No legislation, no system of rules
or negotiation will ever succeed in
persuading men and peoples to
live in unity, brotherhood and
peace;
2. no line of reasoning will ever be
able to surpass the appeal of love.
71. Only LOVE . . .
in its quality as “form of the
virtues”[456], can animate
and shape social interaction,
moving it towards peace in
the context of a world that is
ever more complex.
