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Subsidiarity

Subsidiarity. How it works from small scale to big scale. How it works from big scale to small scale. Preserves the state’s overall efficiency saving it from spending resources in the wrong places

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Subsidiarity

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  1. Subsidiarity How it works from small scale to big scale How it works from big scale to small scale Preserves the state’s overall efficiency saving it from spending resources in the wrong places Allows for bigger units of society to focus on larger ideas and problems; state is free to observe and eliminate systemic injustices (example: Civil Rights’ movement and laws of 1960s • Ensures contributive justice on the lower, local levels; individuals/families/ must work to ensure their well-being • Allows for real difference among communities • Allows for quick, authentic human responses to human problems; avoids the scourges of bureaucracy

  2. Subsidiarity to Common Good • We can think of subsidiarity as a means to a deeper end: the common good • Subsidiarity is about ordering society so that individuals, families, communities, governments will be free to focus on how they can best promote the common good at each level of society

  3. The Common Good • Definition: the sum of the spiritual material and social conditions needed for a person to achieve full human dignity • Once again, has the human person as a creature made for communion with God and others at its core • Also underlines the idea that the “Good” is not simply “mine” but “our”

  4. What the Common Good is NOT! • The common good is NOT utilitarianism • Utilitarianism being achieving the greatest amount of pleasure for the maximum amount of people by whatever means necessary • Example: U.S.A bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; why would this not fall under the Catholic idea of common good? • Common good is NOT a calculation but a striving after certain conditions

  5. Common Good Broken Down • Respect for the person: human rights must be at the heart of any society’s laws and protective capacities; has in mind that every individual has a unique vocation and that there are conditions which foster the discovery of this vocation • Social well-being and development: the higher units of society need to be seeking conditions which ensure development in the lower levels of society; government should be seeking conditions which allow everyone to at least meet basic needs for food, clothing, health, education, and work

  6. Common Good continued 3. Peace: this is the most fundamental condition needed for the common good to exist; assumes that it is OK for a society to have a means of defending itself and ensuring social order

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