Searching for the Common Good: Philosophical, Theological and Economical Approaches

Prof. Thierry Collaud; Prof. Dr. Mathias Nebel

doi:10.5771/9783845283012

Summary

Das Buch thematisiert die aktuelle Debatte darüber, ob sich die Politik nur mit Fragen nach Gerechtigkeit, Rechtstaatlichkeit und Toleranz auseinandersetzen oder sich einem teleologischen Konzept wie dem Gemeinwohl öffnen muss. Lange Zeit als das zentrale Merkmal des öffentlichen Raumes betrachtet, wurde das Gemeinwohl während des 20. Jahrhunderts allmählich beiseitegeschoben. Doch angesichts einer zweifelhaften Globalisierung und der Grenzen des politischen Liberalismus rückt das Gemeinwohl wieder in den Vordergrund. Dieser Band versammelt Theologen, Ökonomen und Philosophen, um die Relevanz des Konzepts für die Herausforderungen unserer Zeit zu untersuchen. Es wird auf unterschiedliche Weise und aus verschiedenen Disziplinen argumentiert, dass das Gemeinwohl eine Form der Grammatik ist, die den öffentlichen Raum prägt. Es ist kein geschlossenes Konzept, sondern eine Dialektik, die Gesellschaften und die Menschheit zu einer menschlicheren Integration antreibt. Als solches ist das Gemeinwohl eine Hoffnung - die Hoffnung, dass das eigene Wohl und das Wohl der anderen letztlich nicht einander entgegenstehen, sondern sich gegenseitig bereichern und ergänzen.

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Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-4019-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-8301-2
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Religion - Wirtschaft - Politik
Volume: 19
Language: English
Pages: 232
Product Type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 7
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1. Boundaries No access
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2. From the particular to the universal: common goods No access
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3. The common good and political philosophy No access
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1. The Language of the Common Good in Scholastic Political Thought No access Pages 13 - 32
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  1. I. Natural Right and Natural Law: Aquinas’s “Tendentious Glosses” on Nicomachean Ethics V.7 No access
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  2. II. Natural Law and the Problem of Regime-Relative Political Virtue No access
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  3. III. Natural Law, Magnanimity cum Humility, and Contemporary Politics No access
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  1. I. The diagnosis: denial or (ideological) blindness, and systemic transformation No access
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  2. II. The common good: an ideal orientation for action No access
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  3. III. Directions of actions aimed at the common good No access
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  4. IV. Systemic dynamics geared to the common good No access
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  1. Introduction No access
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  2. What is civil economy? No access
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  3. The common good as a category of economic thinking No access
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  4. The return of the ‘common good’ category No access
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  5. Prospects for action, and a concluding note No access
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  1. Definitions No access
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  2. Real versus formal freedom No access
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  3. Freedom of choice and reason to value No access
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  4. Conclusion No access
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    1. 1. The operational need for the common good No access
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      1. 2.1 The totalitarian nature of the notion of the common good and the retreat on the question of justice No access
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      2. 2.2 Rawls’s use of the notion of the common good No access
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      3. 2.3 The contractualist inversion of eschatology and protology No access
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      4. 2.4 A critical review of Rawls’s use of the ‘political good’ No access
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      5. 2.5 The usefulness of the social contract myths No access
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      1. 1.1 The notion of the common good is implicit in all public action No access
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      2. 1.2 The need to act in common, and the community created by common action No access
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      3. 1.3 The elements of common action No access
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      1. 2.1 The social good and the shared value of the common benefit No access
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      2. 2.2 The good of order and the common rationality it creates No access
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      3. 2.3 The specific common good No access
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      4. 2.4 The common good as a nexus of relationships between specific common goods: the universal common good (the horizon of the common good) No access
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      1. 3.1 The Living together bears the hope of a conjunction between the personal good and the good of the community – it shelters the liberating power of a transcendent hope. No access
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      1. 4.1 The conjunction of the good of the individual and the good of the community No access
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      2. 4.2 Wanting the common good No access
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      3. 4.3 The dialectical dynamic of the common good No access
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  4. Conclusion No access
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    1. The common good in the span of today’s Christian Ethics: the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox theological traditions No access
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    2. From ancient Greek philosophy to Christian Theology No access
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    3. Situating the common good in Greek patristic texts and the paradigm of St Basil: Revisiting the missing bond No access
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    4. In Search of the common good on a windy trail No access
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  1. The common good as salvation No access
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    1. The community as a living body No access
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    2. The violence that threatens the common good No access
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    3. The common good as a resolution of the tension between war and peace No access
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    1. The common good as desire No access
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    2. The common good as relationship No access
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    3. The common good as blessing No access
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    4. The common good as a life unfolding its fruitfulness No access
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    5. The common good as community under grace No access
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    6. The common good as recognised and accepted brotherhood No access
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    7. The common good as body of Christ No access
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  4. Conclusion No access
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  1. Introduction No access
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  2. When the disadvantaged are excluded No access
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  3. An appeal to respect human dignity No access
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  4. From ‘listening to the poor’ to an ‘option for the poor’ No access
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  5. Human rights as a lever for action No access
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  6. The personal is political No access
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  7. Pastoral perspectives No access
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  1. The closure of the commons and the dynamic of the common good No access
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  2. Allegiance to the commons: social habitus and shared virtues No access
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  3. Global common goods and governance for the common good No access
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