Benedict XVI: Moral vision guides ethics. The common good, human dignity, and sustainable development are the principles which should be inspired by an ethical economic vision. Benedict XVI's noted …More
Benedict XVI: Moral vision guides ethics.
The common good, human dignity, and sustainable development are the principles which should be inspired by an ethical economic vision. Benedict XVI's noted this in his address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Pope began by noting that the current economic crisis contradicts the principle that the market itself has mechanisms to correct and regulate itself. The economy must instead prove to be capable of an exercise of responsibility orientated towards the promotion of the common good and the development of society and the human person. For the Church, natural law that should inspire ethically oriented political and social actions, inscribed in the natural order willed by God, accordi ...
The common good, human dignity, and sustainable development are the principles which should be inspired by an ethical economic vision. Benedict XVI's noted this in his address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Pope began by noting that the current economic crisis contradicts the principle that the market itself has mechanisms to correct and regulate itself. The economy must instead prove to be capable of an exercise of responsibility orientated towards the promotion of the common good and the development of society and the human person. For the Church, natural law that should inspire ethically oriented political and social actions, inscribed in the natural order willed by God, accordi ...