Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 327 – Part I.
(Youcat answer) The common good follows
wherever the fundamental rights of the person are respected and men can freely
develop their intellectual and religious potential. The common good implies
that men can live in society with freedom, peace, and security. In an age of
globalization, the common good must also acquire a worldwide scope and allow
for the rights and duties of all mankind.
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 1907) First, the common good
presupposes respect for the person as
such. In the name of the common good, public authorities are bound to respect
the fundamental and inalienable rights of the human person. Society should
permit each of its members to fulfill his vocation. In particular, the common
good resides in the conditions for the exercise of the natural freedoms
indispensable for the development of the human vocation, such as "the
right to act according to a sound norm of conscience and to safeguard… privacy,
and rightful freedom also in matters of religion" (GS 26 § 2).
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment) The common
good is best served where the good of the individual person and of the smaller
units of society (for instance, the family) is central. The individual and the
smaller social unit need to be protected and promoted by the stronger power of
State institutions.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 1908) Second, the common good requires
the social well-being and development of the group itself.
Development is the epitome of all social duties. Certainly, it is the proper
function of authority to arbitrate, in the name of the common good, between
various particular interests; but it should make accessible to each what is
needed to lead a truly human life: food, clothing, health, work, education and
culture, suitable information, the right to establish a family, and so on (Cf.
GS 26 § 2).
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