Catholic Social Teaching: Principles, History, and Bioethics

Can People Live in an Organized Way Without Religion?

Europe was formed from three pillars: Jerusalem (God), Greece (philosophy), and Rome (laws). As it was said before Christ, “One cannot speak of laws without religion.” Religion comes from “religar” (to bind or unite), which means joining with something superior and with everything that surrounds you. Can a man be good without a God? There are Christians who are bad and good atheists. Did someone tell us that murder is bad? We did not need

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Human Nature: Life, Society, and Freedom

Homo Sapiens Sapiens: A Living Being of Rational Nature

Here is the first thing we are. Aristotle said that for the living, life is your being. Everything we are, we feel, think, do or suffer, everything, is because we are alive.

A) What is it to be alive?

Life is what differentiates the living from the inert. Life is very difficult, if not impossible, to conceptualize. Not within a term. At best, we can determine some characteristics such as these:

  • To live is to “Autonomously Move” from within. Living
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Empiricism vs. Rationalism: Locke, Hume, and the Nature of Knowledge

Empiricism vs. Rationalism

Empiricism is a philosophical stream arising from Anglo-Saxon philosophers, almost simultaneously with rationalism. Leading representatives are British: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Empiricism argues that all knowledge comes from experience.

Empiricism accepts some basic ideas of rationalism. For both empiricists and rationalists, the being of things is given in consciousness, not the external world. There is no access to the things themselves, but to the ideas we create in

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Foundations of Catholic Social Teaching

What is Catholic Social Teaching (CST)?

It is the set of ideas and principles that the Catholic Church and other Christian churches suggest to create a fairer and more humane world.

  • It suggests propositions on social, economic, and political reality. One of the biggest contributions is the Catholic Church’s vision regarding these issues.
  • It is the contribution of Christian thinkers (religious or lay) within different areas of knowledge or bibliographical contribution.
  • It is inspired by the life of
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Catholic Social Teaching: Principles and Applications

What is Catholic Social Teaching (CST)?

It is the set of ideas and principles that the Catholic Church and other Christian churches suggest to create a fairer and more humane world.

  • It suggests propositions on social, economic, and political reality. One of the biggest contributions is the Catholic Church’s vision about these issues.
  • It is the contribution of Christian thinkers (religious or lay) within different areas of knowledge or bibliographical contribution.
  • It is inspired by the life of Jesus
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Plato: Life, Philosophy, and the Pursuit of Knowledge

Plato: Life and Work

Plato was born in Athens in 427 BCE. His father, Ariston, traced his lineage back to the king Codrus, and his mother, Perictione, was related to Solon, the first lawgiver of Athens. After his father’s death, his mother remarried Pyrilampes, a man from one of the wealthiest families in the city. Plato’s relatives, Charmides and Critias, were politicians who were part of the Thirty Tyrants. At 18, he met Socrates and became his most loyal and enthusiastic disciple. He traveled

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