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This publication aims to identify similarities and differences in the ways of implementing the principle of the common good in classical (commercial) and social enterprises. Given the differences between social and classical enterprises in terms of their objectives and modes of action, it has to be stressed that the nature of the contribution they make to the common good differs in terms of subject and object. The research is embedded in Catholic social teaching (CST) because this approach presents one of the theoretically and practically richest theories of the common good, and secondly, it allows to discover modern ways of building the common good while respecting centuries of tradition and referring to philosophical classics. The common good principle in the light of CST lets us focus not only on the material but also the transcendental aims of human work and life which lead to more sustainable management. Commercial enterprises strengthen intellectual capital and expand technological and business knowledge. The profit earned by these companies essentially contributes to the good of society (taxes, investment, charity), including employees (bonuses, training). Social enterprises, on the other hand, have the advantage of investing in social capital and thus building a civil society based on mutual trust and support, especially at a local and institutional level. The profit generated by these organisations is a means to achieve social goals and not an end in itself. The results of our research show that both commercial and social enterprises contribute to common good on their own ways but the best results can be achieved when they cooperate and use all of their strengths for building the better future.

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The article provides a historical overview of the presence of the Catholic Church in social and political life from the first encyclical Rerum Novarum until today, with particular reference to the Slovenian geographical space. From the very definition of the Church's social doctrine as a special theological discipline, it is clear that this sphere of research has been subject to historical changes, as presented in the first chapter of this articles. The diversity of views on the relationship between religion, society and politics has resonated visibly across Slovenian social circles. Between the two world wars, Slovenia was wholly comparable to the neighboring, especially Western European countries in terms of the Slovenians’ active role as Christians in the society. The most important actors in this were Janez Evangelist Krek, Andrej Gosar and Edvard Kocbek, whose socially active role is presented in the following two chapters. The progress of this process was blocked for half a century with the communist revolution in the period during and after the second world war, which is presented in the fourth chapter. After the Second Vatican Council, the Church's social doctrine was subject to some significant changes, and Slovenians adapted to them fairly well. Due to the powerful pressures exerted by the laicist and secularist culture in the Slovenian environment, both society and the state lag significantly behind other European countries in terms of relations between faith and reason, between the laymen and the Christian culture, between the church and the state. The Catholic Church's vision of the presence of Christians in modern society is relatively clear and has been reshaped under the last few popes, which is the subject of the final chapter of the article.

The article "Ecology and the Transformation of Democracy" by Corine Pelluchon raises the question of why environmental issues have not changed democracy and why we continue to maintain lifestyles that have both ecological and social destructive effects. The author argues that environmental ethics has not been able to connect ecology with an existential philosophy and show the way to a possible renewal of democracy. She emphasizes the importance of the landscape, sociability, and the ethical and political dimension of meat consumption. The author asks how representative democracy can integrate these new goals that change the importance of the common good. She also discusses the conditions for political and democratic innovations and advocates for decentralizing democracy to make politics more ecological. [Extracted from the article]

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The aim of the article is to philosophically address and expand the contemporary discourse of the increasingly digitalized education by examining the problem of matter of education and its conceptualizations in this context. With the digital transformation of education a significant change occurs not only in terms of what is considered to be a matter of education, but also in the very principles of interaction between the subjects of education. In order to do this, in the first section several examples of conceptual justifications of applying digital technologies in education are examined with the task of demonstrating how in such justifications the activity of education is reduced to the process of learning and what risks such instrumental interpretation engenders. Then, these issues are analyzed and contextualized utilizing the material of the philosophical discussion of the 20th century - the critique of the progressive education in the analytic philosophy of education. By outlining the relevance of the arguments of discussion on manner/matter to realities of digital education, the issue of the dominance of the logic of learning in current education is analyzed. In the last section several adjustments to the contemporary discourse on digitalization of education are proposed, aimed at finding a balance between individual and social dimensions of the problem of matter of education, given the current tendency of mass personalization in education. Particularly, the importance of the idea of education as a common good in the contemporary educational discourse is claimed.

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In this article our aim is to present some of the coordinates of the debate around common good. Starting by recognizing the importance of common good for the Christian worldview after the presence of it in St. Paul’s “the manifestation of Spirit is given for the common good”, we will present two ways of interpreting the development of our moral and emotional tendencies that have to do with two different evolutionary approaches. By the end of the article, we hope to have established the argumental advantage of the cooperativist in front of the social Darwinist, opening the possibility for a possible interpretation of evolution as guided towards common good.

Obiora F. Ike’s impressive amount of research texts on ethics can be found on Globethics.net Library. In general, there is no need to search for a justification of a life work and commitment to values, when a person reaches beyond a certain level of experience in life, in any field of professional work, even more in spiritual and ethical development. In the following lines I shall focus on the value of the common good for a person who not only had precise notions about a philosophical and theological concept, but taught by the example, believing integrity matters and integral development can be a life-long mission and altruistic commitment, even if life can be either simple or complicate.

The idea of the common good is missing in politics today. Fighting for political ideology and self-interest has replaced finding solutions to problems or practising the ethics of public interest. We urgently need to create a new social contract with proper implementation of the values set out in the national Constitution. This study was undertaken from a reformed ethical perspective, with special emphasis on the ethics of the common good. Methodologically, in researching this article, the author was guided by two related questions: how do ideas, beliefs and norms form? What happens in society to let these norms shape our actions? Conducting research guided by these questions has helped the author to understand that for many communities, stability is maintained by rules, norms, beliefs, convictions and worldview as located in tradition and culture. It is institutions such as those outlined here that still guide attitude and behaviour in the majority of cases. While being sensitive to these institutions and the role they play, through policy and legislation, under constitutional supremacy, the Constitution has become the primary guide and source for community stability. Interdisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article brings the disciplines of theology, politics and governance together in defining the ethics of the common good in contemporary South African politics. It proposes that the moral prerequisite for solving the deepest problems our country now face is a commitment to the ethics of the common good. By definition, this will require the engagement and collaboration of all the ‘stakeholders’ – government, businesses, civil society groups, faith groups and especially young people.

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Cities are key players in the transformation of our society towards a sustainable way of life, but are facing massive challenges. We want to support cities by providing a planning tool for transformative governance, whereby the experiences gained may also be relevant for regions and countries. The planning tool serves as a reference framework for decision-makers and users to collaboratively learn through these processes. For this purpose, we have developed additional instruments from the economy for the common good, and integrated fields of action and target systems from urban planning into a matrix. We then determined the planning objectives of the Lower Austrian city of Amstetten through a participatory foresight process, which we entered in the planning tool. The goals were associated with indicators to be used for the measurement of goal achievement. The planning tool was tested and further developed in workshops with the stakeholder groups involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since the 2010s, severe crises have hit the European Union (EU) approximately every five years: first the financial and euro crisis, then the migration crisis and Brexit, and last (but certainly not least) the COVID-19 pandemic. The crises have left their mark on the inner cohesion of the Union and on the level of solidarity between its member states. As a result, three central themes will shape the EU in the coming years: the lack of trust between member states, increasing value divergence within the EU, and a lack of a shared vision for the future of the Union. These factors will impact upcoming negotiations on key legislative initiatives such as the Green Deal, digitalisation, the Health Union, the renegotiation of EU fiscal rules, the strategic compass, or even on possible treaty changes following the Conference on the Future of Europe. How well the EU will be able to master these challenges, will depend on the member states' ability to prioritise the common good of the Union above their national interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the basis of recent Vatican impulses and with a sharpened view of the development of financial ethics in the European area since the end of the Middle Ages the article wants to pursue the question of how the pursuit of profit can serve the promotion of a globally conceived common good through its orientation on ethical parameters. For this purpose, from the perspective of Catholic financial ethics, it seems central that ethically (and also Christianly) motivated behavior in the financial sector is moved from the shadow of a merely altruistic allocation of funds into the light of a professional investment strategy. The approach of so-called impact investing succeeds in reconciling economic profit and socio-ecological benefits in a special way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Public theology is a relatively new theological field, but its themes and concerns are as old as the interaction between the Christian community and society. Different ages prompted different emphasis and approaches. This by far is not a way of pretending that public theology always existed in some form. This article is a biographical and historical investigation in tune with the defining features and interests of public theology and public theologians. The selection of the figures discussed here – without accounting for a complete history – aims to reflect the theoretical, practical, contextual and ecumenical aspects of public theology.

This article first outlines some of the basic lines of recent Catholic social ethics, as developed in Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato si’ (2015). In his letter which is less fundamental but more prophetic with a strong Franciscan background, Pope Francis continues the thoughts of his predecessor Benedict XVI and Benedict’s encyclical letter Caritas in veritate (2007). In the course of criticizing a misguided reliance on a market economy (and so-called capitalism without adjectives), it is emphasized in this paper that these alone are not sufficient to promote the Common Good or understood as integral to human development and social inclusion in a global world. With a view to the challenges of our time outlined by the encyclicals, the article then wants to focus on an approach to political theology that draws on the tradition of Augustinian thought and offers a solution for the promotion of the Common Good under the circumstances of modernity. The core tenet of so-called Augustinian Liberalism is the demonstration that the central liberal principles of individual freedom and universal equality are not sufficient enough to ensure human flourishing in this world. Despite the eminent importance of democratic constitutional principles, they ultimately fail to comprehensively promote the fulfilment of human life in its individual and social dimensions. They shorten the concept of rational autonomy to self-centred freedom that absolves itself of its responsibility and value-relativist tendencies, the thinkers of Augustinian Liberalism then profile a concept of love based on the thought of St. Augustine as a normative. Their position promotes principles for the political practice of individuals and guidelines for institutions in the liberal constitutional state.

The journal "Bildung und Erziehung" contains various contributions on current research in the field of education. Some of the topics covered include migration and school, performance attributions of teacher training students, school alienation, communication cultures in educational science, Studium Generale, and learning location cooperation. The journal is edited by Karin Büchter and Sonja Steier and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Book reviews on the topics of democracy education, individual action and the common good, as well as educational science in the GDR, are also presented. [Extracted from the article]

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