Work
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- 2426 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice The development of economic activity and growth in production are meant to provide for the needs of human beings. Economic life is not meant solely to multiply goods produced and increase profit …
- 2427 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice Human work proceeds directly from persons created in the image of God and called to prolong the work of creation by subduing the earth, both with and for one another. 209 Hence …
- 2428 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice In work, the person exercises and fulfills in part the potential inscribed in his nature. the primordial value of labor stems from man himself, its author and its beneficiary. Work is for …
- 2429 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice Everyone has the right of economic initiative; everyone should make legitimate use of his talents to contribute to the abundance that will benefit all and to harvest the just fruits of his …
- 2430 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice Economic life brings into play different interests, often opposed to one another. This explains why the conflicts that characterize it arise. 215 Efforts should be made to reduce these conflicts by negotiation …
- 2431 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice The responsibility of the state. "Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical, or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of …
- 2432 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice Those responsible for business enterprises are responsible to society for the economic and ecological effects of their operations. 217 They have an obligation to consider the good of persons and not only …
- 2433 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice Access to employment and to professions must be open to all without unjust discrimination: men and women, healthy and disabled, natives and immigrants. 218 For its part society should, according to circumstances, …
- 2434 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice A just wage is the legitimate fruit of work. To refuse or withhold it can be a grave injustice. 220 In determining fair pay both the needs and the contributions of each …
- 2435 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice Recourse to a strike is morally legitimate when it cannot be avoided, or at least when it is necessary to obtain a proportionate benefit. It becomes morally unacceptable when accompanied by violence, …
- 2436 IV. Economic Activity and Social Justice Unemployment almost always wounds its victim's dignity and threatens the equilibrium of his life. Besides the harm done to him personally, it entails many risks for his family. 222
- 2459 IN BRIEF Man is himself the author, center, and goal of all economic and social life. the decisive point of the social question is that goods created by God for everyone should in fact …
- 2460 IN BRIEF The primordial value of labor stems from man himself, its author and beneficiary. By means of his labor man participates in the work of creation. Work united to Christ can be redemptive.
- 2461 IN BRIEF True development concerns the whole man. It is concerned with increasing each person's ability to respond to his vocation and hence to God's call (cf CA 29).