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1. The Common
Good
2nd CST Principle

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?

3. COMMON GOOD
Reading materials:
Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church par
164-184

4. COMMON GOOD
stems from the
dignity,
 unity and
 equality of all people

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)

6. COMMON GOOD
Keywords:
-- sum total
-- social conditions
-- reach fulfillment
-- more fully/easily

7. COMMON GOOD
Keywords:
-- sum total
-- social conditions
-- reach fulfillment
-- more fully/easily

8. Common?
Everyone & Each
Indivisible
Only together can it be
Attained
Increased
safeguarded

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

17. Universal Destination of Goods
What goods?
Earth’s goods

18. Universal Destination of Goods
What is the meaning of
universal destination?
Earth’s goods

19. Universal Destination of Goods
It means: Universal Right to
USE THE GOODS OF THE
EARTH

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

23. Subsidiarity
3rd CST Principle

24. Reading Materials:
Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church par. 185-
191

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?

26. Associations/Relations
family,
groups,
associations,
local territorial realities

27. Mechanism of associations
economic,
social,
cultural,
sports-oriented, recreational,
professional and
political

28. Civil Society
sum of the relationships
between individuals and
intermediate social
groupings

29. Civil Society
????
Individual vs group
Group vs society
Community vs nation
Sector vs community

30. Civil Society
Problem of Order
Problem of justice

31. Subsidiarity
a most important
principle of
“social philosophy”
(CST 186)

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].

33. Subsidiarity (meaning)
Relation of:
individual and group
lower and higher
Subordinate and superior

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

35. Implication
Superior/higher/group
(1) all societies of a superior
order must adopt attitudes of
help (“subsidium”) — therefore of
support, promotion, development
— with respect to lower-order
societies.

36. Implication
Superior/higher/group
(2) freedom, initiative, autonomy
& responsibility of the individual,
lower, and subordinate should
not be supplanted/deprived

37. Implication
Democratization & equality of
members
Issues to ponder:
Kung kaya ni mister kaya din ni
misis
Kung kaya ng babae, kaya din ng
lalaki

38. Implication
No to the ff:
centralization,
bureaucratization,
welfare assistance and
to the unjustified and
excessive presence of the
State in public mechanisms.

39. Effective
governance/groups/civil
society
respect and effective
promotion of the human
person and the family;
a part” of the political and
social reality of their
country.

40. Effective
governance/groups/civil
society
ever greater appreciation of
associations and intermediate
organizations in their
fundamental choices and in
those that cannot be
delegated to or exercised by
others;

41. Effective
governance/groups/civil
society
the encouragement of
private initiative so that
every social entity remains
at the service of the
common good, each with
its own distinctive
characteristics

42. Effective
governance/groups/civil
society
the presence of pluralism
in society and due
representation of its vital
components;

43. Effective
governance/groups/civil
society
safeguarding human rights
and the rights of minorities;
bringing about bureaucratic
and administrative
decentralization;

44. Effective governance/groups/civil
society
striking a balance between the
public and private spheres, with
the resulting recognition of the
social function of the private
sphere;

45. Effective governance/groups/civil
society
appropriate methods for making
citizens more responsible in
actively “being a part” of the
political and social reality of their
country.

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[

48. Can subsidiarity exist in:
Totalitarian
Communist
Dictatorial regimes?

49. Solidarity
4th Principle

50. Reading Material:
Compedium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church par.
192-196

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

56. Technology??
Did it connect us or separate
us?

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

58. Principle of solidarity
Based on the notion of
interpedence
demands equal and equitable
development for all

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.

64. ethical-social solidarity
Finally, I am obliged because
of the notion of
Debt
Utang-na-loob
to others and to society

65. The Way to Love
Summary of the principles

66. Reference reading:
Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church par. 204-
208

67. The Way of Love
--is the deep bond that links all
the principles
--highest and universal
criterion of the whole of
social ethics.

68. The Way of Love
It is from the inner wellspring of
love that the values of truth,
freedom and justice are
born and grow.

69. Love
presupposes and
transcends
justice

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.