Searching for the Common Good

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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Bibliographic data

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
Thierry Collaud
1. Boundaries No access Thierry Collaud
2. From the particular to the universal: common goods No access Thierry Collaud
3. The common good and political philosophy No access Thierry Collaud
1. The Language of the Common Good in Scholastic Political Thought No access Pages 13 - 32 Matthew Kempshall
2. Mary M. Keys
  1. I. Natural Right and Natural Law: Aquinas’s “Tendentious Glosses” on Nicomachean Ethics V.7 No access Mary M. Keys
  2. II. Natural Law and the Problem of Regime-Relative Political Virtue No access Mary M. Keys
  3. III. Natural Law, Magnanimity cum Humility, and Contemporary Politics No access Mary M. Keys
1. Paul H. Dembinski
  1. I. The diagnosis: denial or (ideological) blindness, and systemic transformation No access Paul H. Dembinski
  2. II. The common good: an ideal orientation for action No access Paul H. Dembinski
  3. III. Directions of actions aimed at the common good No access Paul H. Dembinski
  4. IV. Systemic dynamics geared to the common good No access Paul H. Dembinski
2. Stefano Zamagni
  1. Introduction No access Stefano Zamagni
  2. What is civil economy? No access Stefano Zamagni
  3. The common good as a category of economic thinking No access Stefano Zamagni
  4. The return of the ‘common good’ category No access Stefano Zamagni
  5. Prospects for action, and a concluding note No access Stefano Zamagni
3. Jean-Michel Bonvin
  1. Definitions No access Jean-Michel Bonvin
  2. Real versus formal freedom No access Jean-Michel Bonvin
  3. Freedom of choice and reason to value No access Jean-Michel Bonvin
  4. Conclusion No access Jean-Michel Bonvin
1. Mathias Nebel
  1. Introduction No access Mathias Nebel
  2. Mathias Nebel
    1. 1. The operational need for the common good No access Mathias Nebel
    2. Mathias Nebel
      1. 2.1 The totalitarian nature of the notion of the common good and the retreat on the question of justice No access Mathias Nebel
      2. 2.2 Rawls’s use of the notion of the common good No access Mathias Nebel
      3. 2.3 The contractualist inversion of eschatology and protology No access Mathias Nebel
      4. 2.4 A critical review of Rawls’s use of the ‘political good’ No access Mathias Nebel
      5. 2.5 The usefulness of the social contract myths No access Mathias Nebel
  3. Mathias Nebel
    1. Mathias Nebel
      1. 1.1 The notion of the common good is implicit in all public action No access Mathias Nebel
      2. 1.2 The need to act in common, and the community created by common action No access Mathias Nebel
      3. 1.3 The elements of common action No access Mathias Nebel
    2. Mathias Nebel
      1. 2.1 The social good and the shared value of the common benefit No access Mathias Nebel
      2. 2.2 The good of order and the common rationality it creates No access Mathias Nebel
      3. 2.3 The specific common good No access Mathias Nebel
      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 Mathias Nebel
    3. Mathias Nebel
      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 Mathias Nebel
    4. Mathias Nebel
      1. 4.1 The conjunction of the good of the individual and the good of the community No access Mathias Nebel
      2. 4.2 Wanting the common good No access Mathias Nebel
      3. 4.3 The dialectical dynamic of the common good No access Mathias Nebel
  4. Conclusion No access Mathias Nebel
2. Christos N. Tsironis
  1. Christos N. Tsironis
    1. The common good in the span of today’s Christian Ethics: the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox theological traditions No access Christos N. Tsironis
    2. From ancient Greek philosophy to Christian Theology No access Christos N. Tsironis
    3. Situating the common good in Greek patristic texts and the paradigm of St Basil: Revisiting the missing bond No access Christos N. Tsironis
    4. In Search of the common good on a windy trail No access Christos N. Tsironis
3. Thierry Collaud
  1. The common good as salvation No access Thierry Collaud
  2. Thierry Collaud
    1. The community as a living body No access Thierry Collaud
    2. The violence that threatens the common good No access Thierry Collaud
    3. The common good as a resolution of the tension between war and peace No access Thierry Collaud
  3. Thierry Collaud
    1. The common good as desire No access Thierry Collaud
    2. The common good as relationship No access Thierry Collaud
    3. The common good as blessing No access Thierry Collaud
    4. The common good as a life unfolding its fruitfulness No access Thierry Collaud
    5. The common good as community under grace No access Thierry Collaud
    6. The common good as recognised and accepted brotherhood No access Thierry Collaud
    7. The common good as body of Christ No access Thierry Collaud
  4. Conclusion No access Thierry Collaud
4. Jean Claude Huot
  1. Introduction No access Jean Claude Huot
  2. When the disadvantaged are excluded No access Jean Claude Huot
  3. An appeal to respect human dignity No access Jean Claude Huot
  4. From ‘listening to the poor’ to an ‘option for the poor’ No access Jean Claude Huot
  5. Human rights as a lever for action No access Jean Claude Huot
  6. The personal is political No access Jean Claude Huot
  7. Pastoral perspectives No access Jean Claude Huot
5. Mathias Nebel
  1. The closure of the commons and the dynamic of the common good No access Mathias Nebel
  2. Allegiance to the commons: social habitus and shared virtues No access Mathias Nebel
  3. Global common goods and governance for the common good No access Mathias Nebel
Authors No access Pages 231 - 232