ADDITIONALS

• Subsidiarity - empowerment of smaller communities and individuals in decision-making.
• Solidarity - commitment to the well-being of all, particularly the vulnerable.
• Characteristics of cst principles

  1. Permanent and universal value
  2. Interconnectedness
  3. Guiding moral judgments
  4. Foundational to society
• Characteristic of common good

  1. Arduous
  2. Indivisible
  3. Common
  4. Focuses on flourishing
  5. Transcendent dimension
• Solidarity obliges people to contribute to the common good of society at all levels.
• Virtue of solidarity

  • consonant with human dignity, common good, universal destination of goods, and subsidiarity.
  • Addresses inequalities in developed and developing nations
  • Requires changes in the legal and economic systems that perpetuate inequality.
• Subsidiarity protects human dignity by ensuring higher order authorities do not interfere with lower orders unnless necessary
• Citizens have the moral duty to engage in social, economic, cultural, and political life. Disinterest in such undermines genuine participation.