ethic quiz 3

social ethics

the systematic reflections on the moral dimensions of social structures, systems, issues, and communities.

Principle tasks:

• Examining existing social conditions

• Determine which are problematic (in light of specific norms)

• Analyze possible actions that could alter those conditions

• Prescribe solution

  

Catholic Social teaching:

the catholic tradition of social ethics

catholic social teaching

It is basically a collection of all the texts that the church has put out pertaining to social and ethical dilemmas and our responses and Officially began in 1891 with Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII

Seven themes of CST

1. the life and dignity of the human person

2. Call to family, community, and participation

3. Rights and responsibilities

• Negative rights: protection from interference from others (right to life: nobody can TAKE my life)

• Positive rights: rights that need positive assistance from others (right to education- we need teachers and schools)

1. The preferential option for the poor

2. Dignity and rights of workers- work exists for people not people for work

3. Solidarity- virtue of seeing all people as neighbors

4. Care for God's creation

   

Justice:

how we love god and neighbor in a concrete way

Commutative justice:

fairness in all agreements and exchanges between individuals or private social groups

Distributive justice:

fairness in the distribution of goods, resources, and opportunities

Social justice:

participation is a right and responsibility- fairness in the interconnecting structures and systems of society

Retributive justice:

a fair response to wrongdoing is punishment- it is a deterrent and balances things out

Restorative justice:

looks at needs of victim, wrongdoer, and community and seek a solution that will be best for everyone. Primary concern is victim's needs

Reconciliatory justice:

a fair response to wrongdoing involves reconciliation in our relationships

Distinction between restorative and reconciliation=

restorative may not have reconciliation whereas reconciliatory justice is figuring out how to have relationships going forward

 

Brain Massingale:

Jesuit ethicist

Spirituality:

a way of approaching God

Lament:

a passionate expression of grief or sorrow

Charity:

voluntary giving help to those in need, often money

• Responds to individual needs

• Addresses symptoms

• Repeated actions

  

Justice:

addresses the root causes of those needs

• Addresses systems and social sin

• Seek to reform society

  

Praxis

the application of religious doctrines and ethics to daily life, essentially putting beliefs into action and living a just life. It's a combination of reflection and action, emphasizing the importance of living out one's faith in a meaningful way. 

injustice

something that is not just or violates catholic social teaching principles

common good

the sum of social conditions that allow individuals and groups to fully and easily reach their potential, encompassing respect for the person, social well-being, and peace

negative rights

that person has the right to be free to do some action or to do no action

positive rights

the duty actively to help a person to have or to do something

solidarity

unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.

systematic racism:

racism that are pervasively and deeply embedded in and throughout systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, entrenched practices, and established beliefs and attitudes that produce, condone, and perpetuate widespread unfair treatment of people of color

Redlining:

Systematically denying various services to residents of specific neighborhoods, often based in urban areas and based on race.

Reductionism:

reducing something down to its most basic parts

System:

A set of elements and relationships between those elements that create a whole

Structure

a type of connection between elements

• Structures are directed towards functions

• Functions are output or what something does

  

Social sin:

social sin is the embodiment of multiple sinful choice into structures and systems that are sinful. It is not individual sins, it's a culmination and it is structuralized.

• Structurally self-perpetuating

  

Systemic racism:

the oppression of a racial group resulting from policies, practices, and entrenched norms.