The civil economy in the perspective of the social doctrine of the Church

Abstract

When I accepted the invitation from UNIJES to participate in this symposium, I decided to relate my current focus of reflection and work (which is civil economy) with the Social Doctrine of the Church. I have articulated my speech into two different parts: the first one shows the outlines of the civil economy; it emerges from the same root than the Social Doctrine of the Church. This paradigm offers great possibilities of implementation and research from an economical logic consistent with the principle of fraternity: In the second part, I try to show some ethical keys of the Social Doctrine of the Church and its articulation from the idea of common good versus the idea of total good. Finally, I offer a proposal for the application of this logic to the incessant flow of the res novae, including the current market configuration.